European Notebook: Clinical Trial Fatality; Affordable Medicines Debate; Physician Payment Disclosure
Executive Summary
One death and five healthy volunteers hospitalized in a Phase I study in France; EU Council looks set to debate patient access to medicines; and the two Mercks set to continue litigation in Europe and the US over use of the Merck word, straining their 60-year-old agreement. Generics/biosimilar trade group adopts physician payment disclosure policy.
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