Interview with Janssen’s Dr Amrit Ray: One Company’s Efforts To Bring Order To The Challenging Area of Compassionate Use
Executive Summary
Where do you go? Who do you ask? What’s the policy? Compassionate use programs can be hard for patients to navigate. And for the companies who run them, they’re often very challenging to manage. Janssen is one company that is trying to introduce some order.
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