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Sumitomo Dainippon Logs Rise in Half-Year Earnings on N. America Latuda Sales, Weak Yen
Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma secured an increase in its half-year sales as the strong performance of its atypical antipsychotic Latuda (lurasidone) in North America and the weaker yen more than offset a plunge in revenues from off-patent drugs in Japan. In…
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