OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegian health authorities revoked a high-profile cancer researcher’s medical and dental licences Tuesday after he admitted faking data and publishing the fraudulent results in medical journals.
Jon Sudbo, 44, a Norwegian doctor and dentist, has admitted falsifying data about cancer of the mouth for articles he wrote in prestigious medical journals, including Britain’s The Lancet and the U.S. publications The New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Norwegian Board of Health spokeswoman Nina Vedholm said the suspension of Sudbo’s medical and dental licences became final after the researcher informed the board that he would not appeal its Nov. 22 ruling.
“It’s final. We consider the case closed for our part,” she said by telephone.
In the letter to Sudbo, the board said his faked research could have endangered patients if other medical personnel had used it as a basis for developing systems of diagnosis and treatment, even though no injury had been proven. The letter said the board found his “behaviour unsuited to the professional practice of medicine and dentistry.”
In July, a government-appointed commission found that much of Sudbo’s work had been manipulated and fabricated. Later that month, Sudbo resigned from his jobs at the National Hospital in Oslo and the University of Oslo.
The university was expected to revoke Sudbo’s doctorate, because his thesis was also believed to contain manipulated data.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2006/12/19/2877330-ap.html
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