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Report finds grave flaws in urology trial

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Scandal erupts at Austrian medical school.

A clinical trial of a stem-cell procedure for urinary incontinence by urologists at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, was full of serious procedural and ethical problems, finds a report by the government's Agency for Health and Food Safety.

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