`Fen-Phen' Diet Researcher's Profit Deal Tarnishes FDA's Vaunted Image. From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 28, 1999| Author: Shaw, Donna | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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Sep. 26 -- Even after joining the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a top official, the researcher whose 1992 medical studies launched the "fen-phen" diet-drug fad helped a businessman promote the pill combination, an apparent ethical violation that the scientist says his government superiors did not find objectionable.

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