NIH confirms cut-back in Indian trials but large sponsors hope for reform
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
In what is probably one of its more lucid responses on the scrapping of a large number of clinical studies in India, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, has said that the Indian trials were stopped mainly because of the country's evolving trial regulations.
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