Subject: Health Professionals Auditor Quits, Cites Dispute Over Tests of AIDS Drug
Date: Published: 6/29/93 (27 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Business Brief -- Health Professionals Inc.:
    Auditor Quits, Cites Dispute
    Over Tests of AIDS Drug

    Ernst & Young resigned as the financial auditor for Health
 Professionals Inc. because of a dispute involving the company's
 testing of an AIDS-fighting drug, a spokeswoman for Health
 Professionals said.
    The company last week attributed a decline in its share price to
 a newsletter article that said the Food and Drug Administration was
 looking into allegations by a former employee that the company had
 altered data in tests of an AIDS drug.  The company said it had sued
 the newsletter and called the FDA interest a routine inquiry.
    Ernst & Young wasn't available for comment.  Health Professionals,
 Ft.  Lauderdale, Fla., runs a network of research and primary-care
 facilities specializing in immune-system disorders.
    In composite American Stock Exchange trading, Health
 Professionals shares closed at $2.5625, up 31.25 cents, or 14%.

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