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Experts Say ICER Deduction Unscientific, MHLW Proposes Different Thresholds for Cancer and Orphan Drugs
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) is pondering ways to reflect ethical and societal factors surrounding cancer and orphan drugs to their price adjustments under its envisaged full-scale cost-effective assessment (CEA) scheme, proposing the introduction of different…
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