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A key health ministry advisory panel will discuss on January 26 whether to back approval for Nobelpharma’s new hypozincemia treatment and an additional chronic kidney disease (CKD) indication for Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim’s Jardiance (empagliflozin). The Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation…
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