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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As Japan Goes Digital on Package Inserts, Distributors Fret Proposed Paper-Based Rule on “1st Delivery”
As Japanese regulators plan a digital shift for prescribing information by scrapping paper-based package inserts, wholesalers are increasingly concerned about what they see as a “physically impossible” task of providing paper-based labels on “first deliveries.” The Ministry of Health, Labor…
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