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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 studies resume.
The Johns Hopkins medical college consistently draws more federal research money than any other medical school in the country. Last year it received $301-million in federal research grants. "This will have a significant adverse impact on our research," said Gary Stephenson, a spokesman for Hopkins. "But the full impact won't be known for months."
The suspension was the first in more than a year to be ordered by the department's Office of Human...