Peter O'Donnell's fantastic characters, Modesty Blaise, Willie Garvin, and their associates, have so large a popular following that it is probably correct to accord them modern mythic status. He is ad...
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Peter O'Donnell,
the View from Brussels columnist for Applied Clinical Trials, is a freelance journalist who specializes in European health affairs. He is based in Brussels, Belgium.
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It could be a happy new year for clinical trials in Europe. The European Union agreed—just in time—on its research support program for 2007–2013. The agreement, reached only in De...
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The pharmaceutical industry initially seemed to have escaped more lightly than might have been expected from the catastrophic Phase I clinical trial with TGN 1412 in London nearly a year ago.
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In late February, the European Union announced it was launching a review of its rules on pharma-covigilance. It is not surprising that the EU should decide a review of pharmacovigilance is necessar...
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