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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NPhA Instructing Member Pharmacies on Careful Drug Purchases after Fake Harvoni Issue: Chief
The Nippon Pharmacy Association (NPhA) will be strongly instructing its member companies to take caution in drug purchases after counterfeit versions of Gilead Sciences’s hepatitis C med Harvoni (ledipasvir + sofosbuvir) were found in Japan, Chairman Masaru Nakamura said on…
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