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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Japan OKs Zolgensma Intrathecal Form, Breyanzi Expansion, New EB Therapy
Japan granted three regenerative medicine approvals on April 3 including a new intrathecal formulation of Novartis’ gene therapy Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec), along with a label expansion for Bristol Myers Squibb’s CAR-T therapy Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel). The intrathecal version of Zolgensma…
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