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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Novo Skips August Listing of Ozempic after Pricing Talks Fail
The Japan arm of Danish diabetes giant Novo Nordisk is taking a pass on the upcoming August listing of its once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist Ozempic (semaglutide) as the company found the NHI price proposed by regulators unacceptably low, a company…
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