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Volume 332:829 March 23, 1995 Number 12

The Relevance of Ethnic Factors in the Clinical Evaluation of Medicines

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(CMR Workshop Series.) Edited by Stuart Walker. 262 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1994. $85. ISBN 0-7923-8843-7.

This book is a compilation of formal presentations and subsequent discussions from a two-day workshop held in London in the summer of 1993. "Ethnic factors" in the context of this book refers essentially to comparisons among Europe, North America, and Japan — the three regions with the highest rates of production and consumption of medicines. A stimulus for the workshop was the regulatory requirement for local replications of clinical studies, which increases the cost and effort of drug development. The speakers and authors represented here include leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, prominent experts from academia, members of the host organization, . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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