April 1, 2005

NEWS IN BRIEF

Researcher Admits Fraud

A former medical professor at the University of Vermont who studied aging, menopause, and obesity has agreed to plead guilty to lying on federal research-grant applications, to pay a $180,000 penalty, and to be barred for life from receiving federal grants.

Eric T. Poehlman faces up to five years in prison and has agreed to submit letters of retraction to the many journals in which articles affected by his misconduct have appeared. The settlement

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