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MHLW Panel OKs Avigan for SFTS with Strings Attached, Shionogi COVID Jab Only for Primary Use
A key Japanese health ministry panel on May 24 gave its blessing for the label expansion of Fujifilm Toyama Chemical’s Avigan (favipiravir) into severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) on the condition that a post-marketing clinical trial will be conducted.…
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