Category Archives: cardiovascular research
University’s story changes: It requested 33 retractions, not ‘several’
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inA longtime whistleblower explains why he’s spent more than a decade trying to get a paper retracted
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inAuthors of meta-analysis on heart disease retract it when they realize a NEJM reference had been retracted
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inHarvard and the Brigham recommend 31 retractions for cardiac stem cell work
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inA distorted record on blood pressure drugs: Why one group is trying to clean up the literature
Authors retract heart disease paper for “nonscientific reason”
Authors claim clinical trial data came from one center. It came from three.
Caught Our Notice: Using this research tool? You’d better ask first
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 whether patients are sticking to their drug regimen, known as the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8). It can cost thousands of dollars — and using it without payment/permission […]
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Journal bans author for three years after retracting paper with “serious ethical” problems
An anatomy journal has banned a researcher from submitting papers for three years after determining one of his recently published papers suffered from “serious ethical” issues. According to Jae Seung Kang, associate editor at the journal Anatomy and Cell Biology (ACB), the paper’s sole author—Jae Chul Lee—falsified both his affiliation and approval for conducting animal […]
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So, was it plagiarism? Journal retracts three papers over “citation and attribution errors”
When several recent submissions raised a red flag, a pediatrics journal decided to investigate. The journal, Pediatrics in Review, discovered “citation and attribution errors” in three case studies, which the journal has now retracted. Luann Zanzola, the managing editor of the journal, explained that the editors caught the errors when they scanned the three […]
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