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Category: NEJM

Posted on May 24, 2020

Remdesivir trial results: NEJM, NIAID and Gilead provide conflicting information

Information shared by the three stakeholders — NEJM, NIAID and Gilead — on critical issues about whether the drug’s ability to reduce mortality is statistically significant and which category of…

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Posted on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020

NEJM study claiming novel coronavirus can be transmitted during incubation period flawed

Contrary to claims made in NEJM, the Chinese woman did not transmit the novel coronavirus to the German during the incubation period. She had symptoms during her stay in Germany…

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Posted on January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

NEJM retracts Chandigarh doctors’ image for plagiarism, case concoction

Indian doctors at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh have their ‘Image in Clinical Medicine’ photo published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) retracted. It is not…

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Posted on August 2, 2017August 5, 2017

FDA wants to prevent smoking addiction by limiting nicotine in cigarettes

Lower nicotine content in cigarettes is an idea whose time has come. On July 28, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration struck panic among tobacco companies by announcing a…

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Posted on June 22, 2017June 27, 2017

Flat lying posture doesn’t do much for stroke treatment

There is no significant difference in the disability outcomes for patients who have suffered acute stroke, whether they received treatment lying flat on the back with the face upwards or…

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Posted on June 26, 2016June 28, 2016

Artemisinin resistance dents the anti-malaria armour

The emergence of resistance to the artemisinin drug, a potent anti-malarial medicine, now threatens to affect the big gains achieved in recent years in reducing the global burden of malaria…

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Posted on June 22, 2016June 23, 2016

First CRISPR trial on humans set to begin

On June 21, the National Institutes of Health gave permission for starting the first ever clinical trial using CRISPR genome-editing technology, Nature news notes. The trial, which  will begin before…

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Posted on April 15, 2016June 28, 2016

A ‘turning point’ in the Zika outbreak

More than 50 years after the infectious pathogen, rubella virus, was identified as the cause of an epidemic of congenital defects, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in…

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