Takeda Pharmaceutical will transfer its major long-listed products collectively worth some 125 billion yen, including the hypertension drug Blopress (candesartan), to its joint venture with Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the two companies said on December 28. The products subject to…
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