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Hungary's National Institute of Pharmacy considers all medical investigations carried out on human beings to be clinical trials if they are done with the purpose of gathering information about one or more medicinal products.
Lithuania's Law on the Ethics of Biomedical Research, dated May 11, 2000, starts from the principle that "the interests of the human being prevail over the interests of society and science."
The European Union recently implemented the EU Clinical Trials Directive (CTD) to better protect clinical trial participants while streamlining the bureaucracy to make the EU more attractive for clinical research (CTA, Nov. 17). CTA continues its monthly profiles of individual EU member states, detailing where each country stands on implementing the EU directive, as well as the steps sponsors must take to conduct trials. This month, CTA covers Latvia, one of the three Baltic Republics that regained their independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991.
The European Union recently implemented the EU Clinical Trials Directive to better protect clinical trial participants while streamlining the bureaucracy to make the EU more attractive for clinical research (CTA, Nov. 17).