Asia Spotlight: 'Worst' Stretch Is Behind Troubled Indian Clinical Trials Sector
Executive Summary
India’s beleaguered clinical trials industry is getting back on track, the president of the Indian Society for Clinical Research says, after a string of faulty studies put the sector under a cloud. But the improvements might not be evident until 2016.
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