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Major domestic drug makers reported sharp declines in sales of their long-listed products due to competition from generics and reductions in NHI prices in their semiannual settlements of accounts for FY2012 (April-September 2012). Sales of Eisai’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment Aricept…
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