Novartis management replaced

Novartis management replaced

TOKYO, Japan - David Epstein, president of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 3, 2014. The Japanese sales arm of the company, Novartis Pharma K.K., announced that its president, Yoshiyasu Ninomiya, and two other top executives have resigned to take responsibility for its employees' inappropriate involvement in a clinical study led by medical doctors.

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