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Clinical Trials Report Highlights Australia’s Competitive Advantages… And Weaknesses

 
• By Neena Brizmohun

A new report has found that Australia’s clinical trials sector is large. As international competition for clinical trials intensifies, Australian medtech trade group, MTAA, has pledged to work with industry to overcome impediments to conducting trials in the country.

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Australia's clinical trials sector is large and growing, says a new report • Source: Shutterstock

A new report showing that Australia’s clinical trials sector is large and growing, and that trials involving medical devices grew by 13% between 2010 and 2015, has been welcomed by the country’s medtech industry association, MTAA.

About 1,360 new clinical trials of devices, drugs and other practices were launched in Australia in 2015, according to the government-funded report, which was published last month. This figure has...

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