India Tweaks Audio-Visual Norms For Trials

India has tweaked requirements around audio-visual recording of the informed consent process for clinical trials, relaxing the rules a little for HIV and leprosy drugs, but industry claims that the revised norms lack clarity on certain key aspects.

India has tweaked requirements around audio-visual recording of the informed consent process for clinical trials, relaxing the rules a little for HIV and leprosy drugs, but industry claims that the revised norms lack clarity on certain key aspects.

Details in a government notification mandate that audio-video recording of the informed consent process in case of "vulnerable" subjects in clinical trials of new chemical entities (NCEs) or new molecular...

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