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Council on “Clinical Innovation Network” Holds 1st Meeting, 7 Working Groups to Design Registries
The health ministry’s council to improve the environment for clinical development held its first meeting on August 20 to discuss the creation of what is called the “clinical innovation network,” a patient-registry-based infrastructure aimed at facilitating clinical trials in Japan.…
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