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EU should do more to boost clinical trials, say universities

  

Recent initiatives are welcome but insufficient to solve cross-border trial problems, says Guild group

The EU should do more to support multi-national clinical trials of potential medical treatments, due to difficulties including around the sharing of health data, according to a group of universities.

New EU laws on clinical trials that came into force in January and are intended to make it easier to conduct trials, as well as a new initiative to boost cross-border trials in particular, are welcome but do not go far enough, according to the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.

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