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EMA

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The European Medicines Agency, the EU body responsible for the scientific evaluation and supervision of medicines. The EMA's centralised marketing authorisation procedure governs which biologics, advanced therapies, and innovative drugs can be sold in EU member states; medical-tourism patients should verify whether prescriptions issued abroad correspond to medicines authorised in their home jurisdiction.

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