Takeda Pharmaceutical’s overseas sales ratio has reached 90.9%, exceeding 90% for the first time though only in the first half…
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AZ Divests Rights to Develop, Sell GI Treatment Entocort Worldwide Excluding US to Tillotts
AstraZeneca PLC (AZ) said on July 9 that the company has entered into an agreement with Swiss-based Tillotts Pharma for the divestment of worldwide rights, excluding the US, to develop and sell its gastroenterology treatment Entocort (budesonide). Under the deal,…
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