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Special Report - Health Care - June 21, 2012
Researchers look at extent of missteps in drug studies
Pharmaceutical papers are retracted often due to scientific misconduct

Newswise

A growing concern with fraud and misconduct in published drug studies has led researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research to investigate the extent and reasons for retractions in the research.

"We were surprised to find the proportion of retractions due to scientific misconduct in the drug literature is higher than in general biomedical literature," says Simon Pickard, associate professor of pharmacy practice and senior author of a st...


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