If you’ve only recently taken an interest in the healthcare sector in China, you may be confused by some of the acronyms you see floating around, and wonder why there seem to be multiple agencies doing the same jobs. You’ll be pleased to hear that the confusion in some English language publications mainly results from a change of name and …
In 2013, Christina Reith, fellow of The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, lead authored a paper that addressed in no uncertain terms what effect red tape was having on clinical trials in Europe. Her conclusions were damning – that for academics engaged in carrying out randomised control trials, the most pressing of issues were those …