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Stronger Efforts Needed to Cure ‘Drug Loss’ in Japan So That Needed Medicines Reach Patients

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By Kiyohiko Yoneyama and Mayumi Honda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

11:54 JST, July 12, 2025

The government is stepping up efforts to combat the increasingly acute problem of drug loss, in which pharmaceuticals approved overseas are not available in Japan.

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