‘The Lancet’ retracted a key study that linked anti-malarial drug HCQ to increased risk of death and irregularity in heart rhythms in coronavirus patients.
Mandeep R. Mehra, who graduated from a medical college in Maharashtra, is now a professor at Harvard, while Sapan S. Desai founded the data analytics firm Surgisphere.
In episode 489 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta discusses the controversial studies that were retracted after scientists around the world raised questions on its data accuracy.
Three of the four authors of the study apologised to The Lancet's editors and readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience their published findings may have caused.
Questions have been raised on the Lancet HCQ study over dataset and methodology. Another journal has issued similar concern over a study that used same data.
More than a hundred scientists have raised questions about the dataset used in the study published by The Lancet, which led to WHO halting all trials of HCQ.
Doctors have identified hypertension or high blood pressure as ‘a key dangerous factor’ that leads to distress and death in patients with the coronavirus.
In an analysis published in The Lancet, two Italian researchers have predicted a doomsday scenario for Italy if coronavirus infections continue at current rate.
The analysis of 10 gene sequences of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from nine patients in Wuhan found that the virus is most closely related to two bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
The Lancet is not the victim it is now pretending to be. It was all too ready to play into the hands of American pharma companies, which wanted to destroy an upstart supplier like India and its products. I hope that the publishers will decide to shut down this abominable professional journal.
Mistakes and error of judgements are humane and expected. Greatness lies in prompt admission of mistakes and rectifying them.
The Lancet is not the victim it is now pretending to be. It was all too ready to play into the hands of American pharma companies, which wanted to destroy an upstart supplier like India and its products. I hope that the publishers will decide to shut down this abominable professional journal.