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Flu study faces shake-up over industry funding

Researchers to be removed from study of Tamiflu's side effects.

Japan's health ministry is expected to remove two researchers from its eight-member study group on influenza, because their normal research was partly funded by a Japanese distributor of the flu drug Tamiflu.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on March 26, 2007 06:24 PM |

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