Published 3 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4556
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4556

News

Professor is charged with dishonesty over statements on access to full trial data

Clare Dyer

1 BMJ

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The former research dean of Sheffield University’s medical school was accused of dishonesty at a General Medical Council hearing on 2 November for allowing a journal to publish a false claim that he had seen all the data in a research study of which he was the lead author.

Richard Eastell, who heads the bone research unit at Sheffield University, is at the centre of a research ethics case that saw the other main investigator, Aubrey Blumsohn, who raised questions over the data, take a financial settlement to leave his job at the university.

Dr Blumsohn says that he and Professor Eastell both asked Procter & Gamble, which was funding the study into its osteoarthritis drug risedronate (Actonel), for access to the full data but were refused. The university had been asked to carry out measurements on blood and urine samples that had been taken during clinical trials in the . . . [Full text of this article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student BMJ