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FY2024 Reform Will Bolster Rewards for Innovation to Eradicate Drug Lag/Loss: LDP Policy Bigwig
The FY2024 drug pricing reform is meaningful in that innovations will be rewarded further, encouraging pharma companies and startups to yield outcomes that will help eliminate Japan’s drug lags and drug losses, stressed Norihisa Tamura, a policy heavyweight of the…
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