The Finnish ministry of social affairs and health told on Monday that it has cleared Markku Partinen, a Finnish sleep researcher, of suspected negligence in the narcolepsy scandal.

According to the ministry, Partinen did not withhold information about the suspicions of a connection between the Pandemrix vaccine and narcolepsy.

Partinen was asked to attend talks with the ministry for neglecting to disclose information as well as publicising incorrect information about the obligation of doctors to declare information.
The matter is not to be taken further.

The narcolepsy scandal was sparked when neurologists reported suspicions of a link between an increase in child narcolepsy cases and the swine flu vaccine. Officials have since been investigating whether medical researchers should have disclosed their findings immediately.

STT