●August 14, 2012: JKS News: The PMDA to set up and maintain medical universities, NTT hospitals participating nation-wide database on reported adverse events ... PMDA consulting services | Epidemiology consulting and data

●August 8, 2012: CDx news: Toray KK , a Mitsui Group company has developed original companion diagnostics (CDx) for pre-trastuzumab (Herceptin) testing, projected to be available in 2013 ... Diagnostics products in JAD Databases | CDx consulting

●July 2, 2012: Vaccines in Japan (update)  A new company - Vaccine Japan KK started operations on July 2nd, 2012 as a 50:50 JV of GlaxoSmithKline Japan KK - and Kitasato Kenkyujo, the vaccine unit of Daiichi-Sankyo KK ; initial plans are to sell 14 available vaccines, then planning to launch new products in 2014 and overall aiming to achieve dominant position in 200 billion Yen Japanese vaccine market ...Vaccine products in JAD Databases | Epidemiology consulting and data

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