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Physician Meals Costs, Seminar Expenses Newly Subject to Disclosure under Clinical Trials Act from April
Drug makers will be legally required to disclose meals costs and seminar event expenses, among other payments, incurred for medical institutions and doctors involved in clinical trials using their products, beginning this April. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare…
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