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Nature Medicine 10, 440 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0504-440a

Outsourcing clinical trials to India rash and risky, critics warn

K S Jayaraman1

  1. Hyderabad

In Mumbai, a small firm that used to translate legal documents is making a fortune translating informed consent forms into a dozen local languages. Contract research organizations (CROs), which compete with each other to provide clinical trial services for pharmaceutical companies, are mushrooming across India.

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