Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Japan Panel Slams MHLW’s 80% Single-IRB Target as Too Low
Members of a government regulatory reform panel on March 23 criticized the health ministry’s target for promoting single institutional review boards (IRBs), saying that the goal of covering 80% of multi-center clinical trials falls short and lacks urgency. The Ministry…
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