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The University of Tokyo says that its staff members committed “gross negligence” that constitutes a violation of a Japanese law in allowing the leak of patient data in a clinical trial involving Tasigna (nilotinib), Novartis Pharma’s chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)…
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