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Foreign Drug Makers Increased Market Share to Over 60% among Top 20 Makers in 2017
The ethical drug market in Japan shrank by 1.0% in 2017 to 10,514.9 billion yen on an NHI price basis, according to a report by IQVIA. Sales of oncologics broke 1 trillion yen for the first time, while a generic…
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