The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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MHLW Working Group Sets Policy for Revising List of “Stable Supply Medicines”
A working group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on August 8 agreed on a new policy for revising the list of “stable supply medicines,” or clinically essential drugs that require stable supplies. The meeting was closed…
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