{"id":108241,"date":"2020-06-06T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lancet-nejm-retract-covid-19-studies-that-sparked-backlash"},"modified":"2020-06-06T01:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T08:42:39","slug":"lancet-nejm-retract-covid-19-studies-that-sparked-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lancet-nejm-retract-covid-19-studies-that-sparked-backlash","title":{"rendered":"Lancet, NEJM retract Covid-19 studies that sparked backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lancet-nejm-retract-covid-19-studies-that-sparked-backlash2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lancet, one of the world\u2019s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study, focused on blood pressure medications in Covid-19, that relied on data from the same company.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The journals said the authors of the paper were unable to complete an independent audit of the data underpinning their analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet, one of the world\u2019s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper. Just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study, focused on blood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}