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REGULATORY
Japan Moves to Bar Duplicate IRB Reviews under Single-IRB Framework
Japan’s Cabinet on July 21 approved a regulatory reform plan calling for the use of single institutional review boards (IRBs) in multi-center clinical trials, including by eliminating duplicate ethical reviews by individual study sites. The Ministry of Health, Labor and…
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