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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REGULATORY Health Coverage for OTC-Like Drugs Up for Review Yet Again
November 13, 2012
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REGULATORY Zoledronic Acid, Sildenafil Subject to Pilot Study on Generic RMPs
November 12, 2012
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BUSINESS Time Will Tell Whether Once-monthly Products Ultimately Dominate or Merely Provide Another Option in the BP Market
November 12, 2012
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BUSINESS Four Companies Discontinue Marketing Atelec Generics Due to Halt in Supplies of Bulk Drug Substance
November 9, 2012
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REGULATORY Drug Makers Invited to Join in Intractable Disease Drug Discovery Research Using iPS Cells from This Fiscal Year
November 8, 2012
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BUSINESS Takeda to Buy Envoy of US to Reinforce Drug Discovery Prowess
November 7, 2012
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BUSINESS Abbott Japan Spins Off New Drug Biz, Establishes New Firm “AbbVie”
November 6, 2012
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BUSINESS Sawai’s Status Improved Within Mediceo by Utilizing ARs
November 6, 2012
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BUSINESS Domestic Drug Makers’ Major Products See Sharp Declines in 1st Half; Sales of Aricept, Lipitor Down 30%
November 5, 2012
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BUSINESS “Lecture Meeting Fever” as Companies Seek New Ways to Interact with Doctors Under Tougher Restrictions on Settai
November 5, 2012
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BUSINESS Sales Target for Prasugrel Achievable Despite Add’l Indication Dropped: Daiichi Sankyo Pres. Nakayama
November 2, 2012
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BUSINESS Takeda’s Japan Sales Ratio Likely to Fall to Mid-30% Range: President Hasegawa
November 1, 2012
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BUSINESS Mochida, MTPC See Signs of Sales Growth for Lexapro after Lifting of Long-Term Prescription Ban
October 31, 2012
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BUSINESS Shionogi to Take Part in GSK-Pfizer JV, Realigns Strategy in HIV Field
October 30, 2012
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BUSINESS Chugai to License SGLT-2 Inhibitor to Kowa, Sanofi
October 29, 2012
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BUSINESS Janssen’s New MR Training System Aims to Produce “Consulting MRs”
October 29, 2012
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REGULATORY MHLW to Initially Limit Number of Stores to Offer Epadel OTC
October 26, 2012
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BUSINESS “Changing Way of Thinking Necessary among Industry, Government, Academia for Promotion of Drug Discovery”: AZ Chairman Kato
October 25, 2012
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BUSINESS Santen Going on Offensive in Growth Fields in Ophthalmology
October 24, 2012
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BUSINESS Astellas Poised for Domestic PIIb Trial of Novel IBS Treatment
October 23, 2012
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