Japan permits manufacturing, import of Viagra

Japan permits manufacturing, import of Viagra

Leslie Robert Patterson, country manager of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Tokyo-based affiliate of Pfizer Inc. of the United States obtained permission from Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry to manufacture and import the anti-impotence drug Viagra. ==Kyodo

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