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Published online 26 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070326-4
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Flu study faces shake-up over industry funding
Researchers to be removed from study of Tamiflu's side effects.
Japan's health ministry is expected to remove two researchers from its eight-member study group on influenza, because their normal research was partly funded by a Japanese distributor of the flu drug Tamiflu.
The study of some 10,000 children will investigate the possible side effects of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) as part of its remit.
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