Japan’s health ministry panel is set to discuss whether to back the approval of a list of medicines on April 21, including Moderna Japan’s mRNA-based respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine and GlaxoSmithKline’s antibody drug conjugate (ADC) belantamab mafodotin. Both products…
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