Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Ono, AstraZeneca to End Japan Co-Promotion of Forxiga
Ono Pharmaceutical and AstraZeneca have agreed to end their co-promotion and sales distribution arrangement for the SGLT2 inhibitor Forxiga (dapagliflozin) in Japan amid generic entry late last year, the two companies said on February 27. Forxiga was first approved in…
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