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<title><![CDATA[EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Update and outcome to the journal’s expression of concern, March 2026: The journal has concluded its investigation into the concerns raised in the expression of concern below. The article by Attar and colleagues (BMJ 2025;391:e083382, doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-083382, published 29 October 2025) has been corrected1 to remove two individuals from the author list as they did not meet the authorship criteria. The article has also been retracted2 due to concerns about the reliability of the trial and the integrity of the reported data, which have been referred to the Iran Food and Drug Administration for independent review.Original expression of concern (12 November 2025)What happened after publicationIn this paper by Attar and colleagues (BMJ 2025;391:e083382, doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-083382, published 29 October 2025), The BMJ was alerted to post-publication discussion raising concerns about a variety of issues; some issues were apparent from the data that support the paper, and are linked to from the article. Examples...]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Resident doctors v Wes Streeting: How a potential deal broke down, as BMA lead says Streeting must dial down &#x201C;name calling&#x201D;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Health Secretary Wes Streeting needs to stop trying to “politic” his way out of the dispute with resident doctors and focus on negotiating, the doctor tasked with leading talks with the government says.BMA Resident Doctors Committee (RDC) chair Jack Fletcher made the comments to The BMJ as resident doctors in England wrapped up their 15th strike since 2023.1Fletcher said that before the walkout negotiations with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) had been going well.“We were moving in the right direction,” he said.The government’s latest offer included pay structure reform, reimbursement of royal college exam fees, contract reform for locally employed doctors, and up to 4500 more specialty training places over the next three years (including 1000 this April).Looking back on those conversations, Fletcher said that discussions about jobs and training numbers and trying to tackle the “gig economy”—which many doctors outside of training find themselves working in—were...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Mahase]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Resident doctors v Wes Streeting: How a potential deal broke down, as BMA lead says Streeting must dial down &#x201C;name calling&#x201D;]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Palantir: MPs call for &#x201C;shameful&#x201D; NHS data deal to be scrapped]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MPs have urged the UK government to scrap a “dreadful” and “shameful” £330m NHS contract with the controversial US tech giant Palantir during a Westminster debate.1Palantir, which also provides services to US immigration enforcement and the Israeli military, is contracted to create a federated data platform (FDP) for NHS England to help streamline health service data.But the deal has proved controversial, with concerns raised by the BMA2 and others over risks to patient trust, data security, and Palantir’s background with military and surveillance contracts.Earlier this week—amid reports that ministers were mulling scrapping the contract3—The BMJ revealed how data from pilots of the FDP, run at Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust and promoted as a Palantir success story, were flawed.4Against this backdrop MPs debated the FDP on 16 April, with several Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs urging the government to remove Palantir as the contract supplier. The debate was led by...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gareth Iacobucci]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-04-17T07:21:10-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Palantir: MPs call for &#x201C;shameful&#x201D; NHS data deal to be scrapped]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[When the SPIRIT moves you: protocol changes can introduce bias in non-inferiority trials]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, the UK has seen masked students queueing for emergency meningitis jabs and the publication of the module 3 of the UK covid-19 inquiry,1 which criticised the government’s reliance on flawed advice that the virus did not spread through the air.2One aspect of our lack of readiness for the next pandemic is the current policy on protecting healthcare workers from airborne respiratory pathogens. Specifically, whether respirators should be used instead of ordinary medical masks. Current policy in the UK and many other countries,3456 based on non-inferiority randomised controlled trials,78 is that respirators are needed only for aerosol-generating medical procedures such as intubation. But such trials are inherently predisposed to produce null results and mislead policymakers and potentially cause harm.Randomisation reduces some forms of bias, but it does not abolish bias altogether. Post-randomisation biases can arise once a trial is underway, for example in how interventions are delivered, how...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Greenhalgh, Samantha Lovell, Joe Vipond, Mark Ungrin, Mary Jo Nabuurs]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[When the SPIRIT moves you: protocol changes can introduce bias in non-inferiority trials]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[The UK government must publish a detailed impact assessment of the costs and benefits of the US-UK medicines partnership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the eve of the Easter bank holiday weekend, the UK government finally published the full text of its deal with the US government on the prices the NHS will pay for new branded drugs.1The central plank of the deal is to waive tariffs on UK pharmaceutical exports to the US in return for the NHS paying 25% more for new branded drugs. The initial mechanism for the latter is an equivalent increase in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) standard cost threshold from 1 April 2026, although further price increases may well be needed to meet the scale of extra drug spending the government has signed up to.2 This revised threshold means that a drug will be considered sufficiently cost effective if for every £35 000 extra it costs above the current standard NHS treatment for the condition, it improves health by at least one quality...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sally Gainsbury, James Lomas]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[The UK government must publish a detailed impact assessment of the costs and benefits of the US-UK medicines partnership]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[HIV: &#x201C;At least&#x201D; 329 children infected in Pakistan province, as medical association blames negligence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has raised alarm over 329 children who have tested positive for HIV in the southeastern province of Sindh in the first quarter of 2026, calling it a sign of major failures in infection control and regulation.A separate BBC investigation reported 331 HIV positive children in Punjab province in 2024 and 2025 in an outbreak linked to unsafe injection practices.Sindh health department data, reported by local media, showed 329 children among 894 HIV cases recorded from January to March 2026.1 The PMA blames the rise on contamination resulting from lax health practices such as reuse of needles in unauthorised clinics, and it warned in a 14 April statement that the reported figure was “merely the tip of the iceberg.”It estimated that the actual number of infected children could be fourfold higher than currently documented, because of the critical unavailability of mass screening facilities across the province.The...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashfaq Yusufzai]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[HIV: &#x201C;At least&#x201D; 329 children infected in Pakistan province, as medical association blames negligence]]></dc:title>
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