Staff writer
KYOTO -- A leading world expert on medical ethics said Sunday that a strictly standardized Western approach to medical ethics should not be sought when humans are used in experiments with new drugs in other parts of the world.
The comments by Robert Levine, a professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, are considered significant to pharmaceutical firms in developed countries that have begun conducting clinical testing of new drugs in developing countries.
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