August 3, 2001

U.S. Restricts Research at Johns Hopkins After a Volunteer's Death

By DAN CURRY

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in July halted all federally financed medical studies on human subjects at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and other medical programs within the university. The action followed the death in June of a healthy volunteer participant in an asthma study.

After Hopkins officials worked furiously to develop a plan to correct the problems identified by the government, the federal agency agreed last week to let about 750 of the

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