NIH to review Emory in Darsee case

The National Institutes of Health plans to follow up on an Emory University review of John Darsee's research with an investigation of its own. Darsee, caught fabricating data in dog experiments as a Harvard cardiology fellow in 1981, engaged in research on patients while in training at Emory. NIH investigators will try to determine why Darsee's experiments, which allegedly took place at an NIH-funded center, did not come under scrutiny by Emory's institutional review board.     

Melmon resigns Stanford chairmanship

The chairman of Stanford Medical School's department of medicine, Kenneth Melmon, has resigned his administrative position after receiving a letter of censure from Stanford president Donald Kennedy. A university ethics committee had found Melmon guilty of negligent scholarship after it was discovered that a textbook chapter authored by him contained unattributed material from a book he had earlier helped edit. Melmon maintained that permission to use the material and its proper attribution had been handled by his editor, but this later proved not to be the case. Stanford plans no further action in the matter, and Melmon will retain his professorship.