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Japan Gets Down to the Business of Solving Drug Loss, New Scheme Begins with 78 Meds
Japan has embarked on establishing a solid scheme to eliminate so-called “drug loss” products, or medicines that are already approved in the US or Europe but have not been developed at all in Japan. Under the new scheme being built…
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