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Growth of Global Products Outstrips Abilify Drop in Jan.-June: Otsuka
Otsuka Holdings saw its pharmaceutical revenue inch up 0.8% year on year to 373,761 million yen in the first half of 2017 as shriveling sales of Abilify (aripiprazole), the company’s flagship antipsychotic hit by a patent loss, were countered by…
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