March 15, 2002

Research-Misconduct Lawsuit Dismissed

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and several related parties that was filed by participants in a melanoma study there.

The litigation is one of five actions against universities -- all brought by or involving the same New Jersey lawyer, Alan C. Milstein -- that accuse them of violating the rights of medical-research subjects.

The Oklahoma plaintiffs had argued in their January 2001 suit that the

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