Takeda maps out obesity strategy as it confronts blockbuster loss

Faced with the looming loss of patent protection on Actos, the world's top-selling diabetes drug, Japan's Takeda has mapped out a drug development strategy that relies heavily on a new generation of therapies for "lifestyle diseases." And with the ranks of the world's overweight adults projected to grow 75 percent in the next five years, Takeda's top planning honcho tells Bloomberg that he sees plenty of fresh opportunity for new and better therapies that deal with the health consequences of...