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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Daiichi, Mitsubishi Curb MR Vaccine Shipments in Response to Takeda’s Recall
Daiichi Sankyo and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma have started controlling the shipments of their respective freeze-dried live attenuated measles-rubella (MR) shots in Japan in a move triggered by Takeda Pharmaceutical’s voluntary recall of its MR jab. Takeda said on January 16…
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