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Bristol’s Involvement in Sprycel Trial Could Contravene Ethics Code, but Not PAL: Probe
A third-party investigation found that Bristol-Myers K.K. most likely violated the health ministry’s ethical guidelines with its involvement in an investigator-initiated clinical trial on Sprycel (dasatinib), the company’s chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) drug. The multi-center trial was conducted to examine…
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