Inquiry finds that two German doctors gave performance enhancing drugs

doi:10.1136/bmj.b2135

Published 26 May 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2135
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2135

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Inquiry finds that two German doctors gave performance enhancing drugs

Annette Tuffs

¹ Heidelberg

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An independent expert committee has concluded that two doctorsfrom Freiburg University Hospital, Lothar Heinrich and AndreasSchmid, were extensively involved in providing performance enhancingdrugs to professional cyclists for profit. The committee’sreport was presented to a press conference earlier this monthby Hans-Jochen Schiewer, the rector of Freiburg University,Wolfgang Holzgreve, the director of Freiburg University Hospital,and Hans Joachim Schäfer, the head of the committee.

It found that the two doctors administered performance enhancingdrugs, deceived the hospital and the public, and acted againstGermany’s law on transfusion.

The investigation followed revelations in 2007 in the Germanweekly magazine Der Spiegel about the practices of two Freiburgdoctors (BMJ 2007;334:1184-5, doi:10.1136/bmj.39234.707766.DB).

Within four weeks of the article’s publication Dr Heinrichand Professor Schmid, both sports medicine specialists, admittedthat they had given the blood cell stimulating hormone erythropoietinto the cycling team of the . . . [Full text of this article]

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