EU RED TAPE COULD COST CANCER PATIENTS' LIVES

Cancer patients' lives could be lost because EU red tape has led to a dramatic drop in the number of clinical trials of new treatments, experts warn. The new regulations are threatening the future of research into the disease in Europe, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. The EU clinical trials directive was implemented in 2004 making researchers follow a specific set of rules with the aim of protecting patients and improving standards.

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