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Chiba University to Advise Researchers to Retract Diovan Papers
Chiba University will soon advise researchers to withdraw three scientific papers on a clinical study it initiated for Novartis Pharma’s hypertension drug Diovan (valsartan) after a probe exposed their questionable integrity, it said in its final investigative report. The university’s…
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