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Failing Isn’t the Issue. What You Do Next Is All that Counts
In 2011 the Japanese pharmaceutical industry was rocked when a whistleblower exposed the falsification of trial data for the drug Diovan, the blockbuster blood pressure drug manufactured by pharma giant Novartis. The ensuing investigation led to the arrest of one…
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