$788,000 Paid to Doctor Accused of Faking Study

["Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@uncc.edu>]

$788,000 Paid to Doctor Accused of Faking Study

By BARRY MEIER
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/barry_meier/index.html?inline=3Dnyt-per>

Published: June 17, 2009

nytimes 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/business/18surgeon.html?em

Medtronic said on Wednesday that it had paid nearly $800,000 over 
an eight-year period to a former military surgeon who has been 
accused by the Army of falsifying a medical journal study 
involving one of the company's products.

The surgeon, Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, claimed in the study that the 
use of a Medtronic bone growth product called Infuse had proved 
highly beneficial in treating leg injuries suffered by American 
soldiers in Iraq.

The British medical journal that published the article retracted 
it this year after an internal Army investigation found that Dr. 
Kuklo had forged the names of four other doctors on the study and 
had cited data that did not match military records.