Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. David Juurlink says the case studies are 'fabrications, full stop.' (Credit: Matthew Sherwood) More than 2,000 academic papers ...

At least 61 of the made-up case reports were unwittingly cited in other peer-reviewed medical journals, creating hundreds more errors. Reading time 3 minutes A journal focused on child health and ...

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Juurlink said he doesn’t think a correction is ...

The fictional cases — which now carry corrections but remain published — are 'a huge stain on medical literature,' says one expert You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

More than 2,000 academic papers have cited or based some of their content on fictional case studies that have now been retroactively corrected by Canada’s leading pediatric journal, the Investigative ...