A Japanese health ministry proposal to impose steeper price cuts on certain medicines deemed to carry poor cost-effectiveness profiles cleared…
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Dalton Drops ASKA Stake Increase Plan, Slams Firm’s “Self-Preservation”
ASKA Pharmaceutical Holdings said on September 30 that it has received a letter from US investment fund Dalton Investments and its partners stating that they will no longer pursue a plan to raise their stake in the Japanese drug maker.…
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