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Takeda Apologizes for Violating Promotion Code, Inappropriate Expressions in Ads
Takeda Pharmaceutical offered apologies on March 3 over its improper promotion of Blopress (candesartan), which used a large-scale clinical study that compared its best-selling angiotensin receptor blocker and the calcium channel blocker amlodipine, but denied doctoring any research data. At…
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