| ●Editorial | Mitsuishi T | 228-30 |
| ●Clinical research in the "Bio-Genome Century" and the revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Law | ||
| ・"Bio-Genome Century"−The social basis for regenerative medicine | ||
| On the future of regenerative medicine of human cell: Its philosophy, limitations and future opportunities | Nishikawa S,Fukushima M | 231-51 |
| Infrastructure establishment for clinical evaluation of regenerative medicine | Chiba T | 253-5 |
| Round table discussion:The conflict between medical and pharmaceutical patenting and international health and bioethics | ’tHoen EFM,Banta D, Sumikura K,Mitsuishi T | 257-72 |
| Patenting the results of R&D and public policy objectives | Takagi Y | 273-80 |
| ・The revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Law and the clinical trial environment | ||
| Round table discussion: Perspectives for investigator-initiated registration trials at its starting point | Rinsho Hyoka Editorial Committee | 281-301 |
| Clinical Research Center of University of Tokyo Hospital for the advancement of clinical trials -Towards the highest quality and speedy conduct of clinical trials- | Arakawa Y,Omata M | 303-9 |
| The actual status and perspective of the Shizuka Pharm-Valley Initiative | Doi H | 311-9 |
| Current status of pediatric clinical trials: Special focus on physician-initiated clinical trials for drug approval | Nakamura H | 321-7 |
| ●Topics | ||
| Japan Medical Association's challenge for developing infrastructure of clinical trials in the reformed regulatory situation ─Interview with Hokuto Hoshi, Executive Board Member of JMA─ | Hoshi H | 329-36 |
| ●Leading article | ||
| Measuring the severity of diseases─Particularly in the field of psychiatry | Kurihara M,Suzuki Y | 337-51 |
| ●Review | ||
| Sexual differences and the use of drugs −A review on clinical pharmacology− | Shimizu N | 353-68 |
| ●Proposal | ||
| Proposal of a Draft Human Research Participants Protection Bill: As the most essential legal basis for bioethical issues | Mitsuishi T,Nudeshima J, Kurihara C | 369-95 |
| ●Material | ||
| Report on the Developments of the Dutch System for Medical Ethical Review | Marcel JH Kenter (trans. by Uchida N,Uchida E) | 397-405 |
| ●Forum | ||
| On the evidence of EBM (continued) | Yokota Y | 407-9 |
| ●Instructions for authors [English] | 411-6 | |
| ●Editor's note | Tsutani K | 417 |