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Shionogi CEO Requests Higher Price for Medicon
Shionogi President and CEO Isao Teshirogi has made a direct plea to the Japanese health ministry for increasing the price of Medicon Tablets (dextromethorphan), a cough medicine subject to a production ramp-up requested by the government. Teshirogi together with Akira…
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