Researcher didn't get ethical approval for 68 studies, investigators say

Joachim Boldt, a German anaesthetist who published widely, failed to obtain ethical approval for much of his research, show the preliminary results of an investigation by the medical association of the Rheinland-Palatinate. The findings were given in a joint statement on 4 February by the editors in chief of 11 major journals that carried Professor Boldt’s work, published on the website of each journal. One of the journals is Anesthesia and Analgesia , which in October 2010 retracted an article by him that compared the use of a high dose balanced hydroxyethyl starch preparation with an albumin based regimen as a priming solution for cardiopulmonary bypass ( BMJ 2010;341:c7026, …