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Global sales of NASONEX, an inhaled nasal corticosteroid for allergies, increased 3 percent to $321 million in the 2009 second quarter (10 percent operational growth offset by 7 percent unfavorable foreign exchange impact) as compared to $311 million in the second quarter of 2008. Operational sales were strong in both the U.S. and internationally as compared to the 2008 period.
Sales of TEMODAR, a treatment for certain types of brain tumors, increased 2 percent (11 percent operational growth offset by 9 percent unfavorable foreign exchange impact) to $256 million, with higher sales in the U.S. and Japan.
Sales of PEGINTRON for hepatitis C decreased 6 percent to $215 million in the 2009 second quarter, primarily due to the unfavorable foreign exchange impact of 6 percent.
In women's health care, sales of FOLLISTIM/PUREGON, a fertility treatment, for the second quarter of 2009 decreased 11 percent (1 percent operational decrease and 10 percent unfavorable foreign exchange impact) to $145 million as compared to the second quarter of 2008. Sales of NUVARING, a contraceptive product, in the second quarter of 2009 increased 11 percent (19 percent operational growth offset by 8 percent unfavorable foreign exchange impact) to $129 million as compared to $116 million in the second quarter of 2008.
Global sales of CLARINEX, a nonsedating antihistamine, were $226 million, a decrease of 6 percent (4 percent operational growth offset by 10 percent unfavorable foreign exchange impact) as compared to the second quarter of 2008.
Sales of CLARITIN in the prescription business were $96 million, a 13 percent decrease (6 percent operational decreas
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