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Caught Our Notice: Using this research tool? You’d better ask first
Via Wikimedia Title: Patient Education After CABG: Are We Teaching the Wrong Information? What Caught Our Attention: We’ve written about the controversy surrounding a commonly used tool to measure...
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Authors claim clinical trial data came from one center. It came from three.
A BMJ journal has retracted a 2017 paper that made a false claim about the clinical trial in question. The Acupuncture in Medicine paper reported the results of a clinical trial about the impact of...
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Authors retract heart disease paper for “nonscientific reason”
Researchers have retracted a 2018 paper about the genetic underpinnings of heart disease from the FASEB Journal — and it’s not entirely clear why. The paywalled retraction notice simply cites a...
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A distorted record on blood pressure drugs: Why one group is trying to clean...
In 2015, a group of researchers based in Spain decided to write a review article on high blood pressure. But when they looked over eight articles co-authored by the same person, they noticed some...
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Harvard and the Brigham recommend 31 retractions for cardiac stem cell work
Piero Anversa Retraction Watch readers may be familiar with the name Piero Anversa. Until several years ago, Anversa, a scientist at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was a...
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Authors of meta-analysis on heart disease retract it when they realize a NEJM...
Carl Heneghan The authors of a meta-analysis on predicting cardiovascular disease have retracted the paper because it included a study that was retracted between the time they submitted their article...
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A longtime whistleblower explains why he’s spent more than a decade trying to...
Peter Wilmshurst Since the report of the MIST Trial was published in Circulation in 2008, I have repeatedly written to the journal to express concern about the paper. Most recently, on February 22, I...
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University’s story changes: It requested 33 retractions, not ‘several’
Jun Ren The University of Wyoming has requested that journals retract 33 papers by a former associate dean and “highly cited researcher” at the institution. The news came just a week after we broke...
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Exclusive: Cardiologist in Pakistan continued publishing after journal shown...
Jahanzeb Malik A cardiologist in Pakistan has been selling coauthorship of his research papers to scientists, particularly medical students, who were not involved in the work, Retraction Watch has...
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Exclusive: Providence VA hires scientist previous employer found had harassed...
Kaikobad Irani The University of Iowa found a cardiology researcher violated multiple of its policies, including harassing his former mentees when they tried to leave his lab to establish labs of...
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