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Olmetec Sales Nosedive 67.8% in North America in FY2017: Daiichi Sankyo
Daiichi Sankyo suffered a hefty sales plunge of its major hypertension drug Olmetec (olmesartan), particularly in the US, with its FY2017 group revenue up only 0.5% to 960 billion yen, which actually translates into a year-on-year decline of 8.9 billion…
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