Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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LDP Project Team Submits Proposal to Prime Minister
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) project team on pharmaceutical innovation submitted a proposal to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on June 2, calling for creating a structure to accelerate an R&D investment cycle and a “command tower” function to oversee the…
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