Quintiles Transnational has signed an agreement with Medca Japan to provide central laboratory services in Japan. Quintiles will have its own staff at the College of American Pathologoists-certified Medca laboratory in Saitama, a city in the Greater Tokyo area. The lab will support clinical trials in Japan. “Recent changes in legislation are allowing Japanese pharmaceutical companies to extend clinical trials normally conducted in Japan to other countries in Asia, but these companies ha...