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The quiet rise of the clinical contractor

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More and more drug trials are being farmed out to contractors, but who's benefiting from the change? Meredith Wadman investigates.

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The quiet rise of the clinical contractor. Nature 441, 22–23 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441022a

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