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Cyberdyne taking long view on hoped for FDA robotic limb approval

July 25, 2016
By Richard Smart

Ono defends Opdivo as cost comes under scrutiny in Japan

July 13, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. recently got into a public debate at home about the price of its cancer drug, Opdivo (nivolumab), which critics argue could bring too great a burden on the national welfare system.
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Ono defends Opdivo as cost comes under scrutiny in Japan

July 13, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. recently got into a public debate at home about the price of its cancer drug, Opdivo (nivolumab), which critics argue could bring too great a burden on the national welfare system. The company, however, said an analyst's estimates as to the amount of people that will use the anti-PD-1 drug and the length of time for which they will use it are both exaggerated.
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Takeda moves world's only norovirus vaccine into phase IIb trial

June 29, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. said its TAK-214 vaccine, the world's first to tackle the norovirus, is now in phase IIb field efficacy trials.
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Takeda moves world’s only Norovirus vaccine into phase IIb trial

June 28, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. said its TAK-214 vaccine, the world’s first to tackle the Norovirus, is now in phase IIb field efficacy trials.
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Analysts laud Terumo's reported $380 million buy of Sequent Medical

June 22, 2016
By Richard Smart

Japan biotech sector to benefit from delay in consumption tax hike

June 22, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Biopharmaceutical companies look to benefit, at least in the short term, after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe put off a planned 2 percent consumption tax hike scheduled for 2017. The increase now will not be introduced until at least October 2019.
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Japan biotech sector to benefit from delay in consumption tax hike

June 17, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Biopharmaceutical companies look to benefit, at least in the short term, after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe put off a planned 2 percent consumption tax hike scheduled for 2017. The increase now will not be introduced until at least October 2019.
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Mixed Q1 earnings for Japanese pharma

June 2, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Earnings at major Japanese pharmaceutical companies announced for the first quarter of this year or for the entire fiscal 2015 were mixed at best.
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Mixed Q1 earnings for Japanese pharma

June 1, 2016
By Richard Smart
TOKYO – Earnings at major Japanese pharmaceutical companies announced for the first quarter of this year or for the entire fiscal 2015 were mixed at best.
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