Italy Opens Up On Trial Woes In A Pandemic

Italian medicines agency chief Nicola Magrini recounts the problems AIFA faced and the lessons it learned through its work at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. 

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Italy’s medicines agency, AIFA, says its initial experience of dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak was difficult as opportunities to run large informative trials in the early days were missed.

Although there is now agreement on the need for large randomized clinical trials (RCTs) for generating meaningful clinical evidence, enforcing...

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