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Jan 17, 2025 | 
retractionwatch.com | Avery Orrall
A case of mistaken identity among sharks has led to a correction that changed, among other content, an article’s title, its abstract and the discussion section.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
retractionwatch.com | Avery Orrall
The Sage journal American Surgeon has issued a mass expression of concern for 116 articles. The expression of concern states the journal “was made aware” of “concerning author activity” on the articles. Sage is no stranger to mass editorial actions. In 2023, the publisher pulled large tranches of papers at least three times, and last year it retracted over 450 papers from a journal the company had acquired from IOS Press.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
retractionwatch.com | Avery Orrall
Dear RW readers, can you spare $25? The week at Retraction Watch featured:Meet Retraction Watch’s two new journalistsElsevier denies AI use in response to evolution journal board resignationsBiotech company agrees to pay $4 million to settle data falsification allegationsScience paper by Toronto lab retractedThe 14 universities with publication metrics researchers say are too good to be trueOur list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
retractionwatch.com | Avery Orrall
More than a dozen universities have used “questionable authorship practices” to inflate their publication metrics, authors of a new study say. One university even saw an increase in published articles of nearly 1,500% in the last four years.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Avery Orrall |Howard Larkin
Using the American Heart Association’s recently formulated equation for Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTs (PREVENT), a new study measured the population-wide threat of heart failure (HF) and estimated that 15 million US adults have an elevated risk.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Avery Orrall
Although life expectancy is increasing globally, healthspan—or the years a person lives in good health—hasn’t been as well characterized. A new study of data from 183 countries has found that living longer doesn’t necessarily equate to living more healthfully. In the study, published in JAMA Network Open, researchers used health-adjusted life expectancy, or years of life weighted by health status, to estimate healthspan from World Health Organization member states.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Avery Orrall
Screening for abnormalities in prenatal blood may help detect hidden cancers in pregnant persons. A recent National Institutes of Health study screened 107 pregnant or postpartum persons who received unusual or unreportable cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing results. Cancer was present in almost half of the participants, nearly all of whom had the same sequencing pattern across 3 or more chromosomes.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Avery Orrall
The widely circulated claim that women are 2 to 10 times more likely to injure their anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) than men—often linking such propensity to musculoskeletal differences or the menstrual cycle—fails to take into consideration gender inequities in sports, a new study finds. According to research released in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, methods currently used for calculating ACL injuries may be biased against women.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Avery Orrall
According to a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis, only about a fifth of patients who died within a month of being discharged after an influenza hospitalization had influenza listed on their death certificate, hinting that deaths from flu-related complications may be undercounted.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Avery Orrall
Dengue cases in the Americas have nearly tripled since 2023, the largest number of cases of the vector-borne illness since the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) began tracking them in 1980. PAHO Director Jarbas Barbosa, MD, noted in a December 10 press briefing that more than 12.6 million dengue cases were reported in 2024. Of these cases, more than 21 000 were severe, resulting in nearly 8000 deaths. Children are at higher-than-normal risk of infection.
