News 3 first reported on the case last week in a special two-part I-Team series. ( Read/Watch Reports )

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MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board unanimously voted by phone Friday to put an end to the state's nine-year-old case against a Green Bay doctor.

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Dr. Eleazar Kadile runs an alternative health care clinic and practices experimental chelation therapy. He's been under state investigation since 1994. His attorney says the agreement is a victory for Kadile and many others.

"It's a victory for freedom of choice, and I think it's a victory for complimentary and alternative medicine and, quite frankly, I think it's a victory for Dr. Kadile, personally," said Ray Roder.

A News 3 investigation found Kadile and other alternative practioners alleging unfair prosecution by some at the Department of Regulation and Licensing.

After several years of battles, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, the medical board decided not to revoke Kadile's license, but to simply reprimand him.

Kadile agreed he had an incorrect brochure, misleading ad, and that some patient records were deficient, but the board made no finding about chelation therapy's impact on vascular or heart disease. It took no position on complimentary and alternative medicine.

Kadile also agreed to giving patients notice that he "practices certain therapies that are outside the usual practice of most American physicians ... that may or may not work."

Those getting chelation therapy will have to sign a chelation disclosure form, stating it's experimental.

Under the agreement, a peer will also assess Kadile's practice. Earlier the state said Kadile was endangering patients.

"The agreement addresses the board's primary goals of protection of the public and rehabilitation of the licensee -- it is a sound agreement," said Michael Bernt, a prosecutor for the Department of Regulation and Licensing.

Both sides intend to get the other to pay their legal expenses. Kadile told News 3 his have topped $300,000.

Kadile said he will continue to be open for business.