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Ex-Novartis Employee Pleads Not Guilty over Diovan Data Manipulation
A former employee of Novartis Pharma pleaded not guilty on December 16 to alleged data manipulation over an investigator-led clinical study involving the company’s hypertension drug Diovan (valsartan). At the case’s first hearing by the Tokyo District Court, Nobuo Shirahashi…
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