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Hisamitsu: The Salonpas Patch on the World’s Aching Backs
The maker of Salonpas, the world's number-one OTC pain-relief patch, built on mastery of delivering medicine through the skin
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The maker of Salonpas, the world's number-one OTC pain-relief patch, built on mastery of delivering medicine through the skin
The Japanese drugmaker that co-developed Leqembi, among the first treatments shown to slow Alzheimer's disease
A Japanese antiviral specialist behind the flu drug Xofluza and COVID antiviral Xocova — including the first oral COVID post-exposure prevention pill
Japan's most valuable pharmaceutical company, inventor of antibody blockbusters and majority-owned by Roche since 2002
From a 1781 Osaka medicine shop to a global biopharmaceutical leader — how the Shire acquisition and a broad R&D pipeline are shaping Takeda's next chapter