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200-year-old race-based COPD diagnostic formula shown to be inadequate
A long-term epidemiological study reveals that one of the oldest, racially-based diagnostic formulas in medicine – used globally to define the severity of COPD...
AHA ‘Expression of Concern’ over study on mRNA vaccines and cardiac inflammation
A study just published in Circulation, flagship journal of the American Heart Association (AHA) has been flagged with an Expression of Concern, reports Retraction...
UK investigation into racial and gender bias in medical devices
The UK Health Secretary has ordered a review into whether medical devices — such as oximeters, spirometers and respirators — are equally effective regardless...
The challenges to collecting accurate COVID-death statistics in SA
The number of “excess deaths” from COVID-19 are often angrily disputed. The SA Medical Research Council’s Prof Debbie Bradshaw, explains in an interview with...
The high costs to a medical watchdog of challenging bad science
Days after a mysterious new illness was declared a pandemic in March last year, a prominent French scientist announced he’d already found a cure...
Ivermectin papers show limitations of ‘inherently unreliable’ summary data
The The demand for COVID-19 treatments has created a demand for meta-analyses by systematic review — a process fraught with risk, as evidenced by...
Noakes: Iconic study hid findings, reached unjustifiable and possibly unethical conclusions
Emeritus Professor Tim Noakes, in a study published in the journal Open Heart, has criticised the authors of one of the most influential studies...