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No Problems Found with Integrity of CASE-J Data Analyses: Kyoto Univ.
Kyoto University said on February 27 that a third-party investigation found no problems with how it performed statistical analyses for the main paper of the so-called CASE-J study involving Takeda Pharmaceutical’s blood pressure drug Blopress (candesartan). The large-scale investigator-led clinical…
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