Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Kaketsuken Denies Unauthorized Manufacturing or Cover-up, Blames Ambiguity in Approval Doc
Vaccine and blood product maker Kaketsuken on October 18 denied the health ministry’s claim that it used an unauthorized method to manufacture its Japanese encephalitis vaccine Encevac, contending that the regulator misinterpreted an ambiguous statement in its approval document. Motoharu…
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