Japan is pressing ahead with broader drug price cuts under its cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) system, despite lingering questions over the…
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LDP Lawmakers Seek Separate Drug Pricing Measures for Inflation
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers have called on the government to include separate measures in this year’s honebuto policy to address inflation in the drug pricing system, in addition to efforts to better reward pharmaceutical innovation. The request was conveyed…
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