April 16th, 2013
Blood Sample Mismatch Leads ‘Anguished’ Authors to Retract Three Lipitor Papers
Larry Husten, PHD
Three substudies of the influential TNT (Treating to New Targets) trial have been retracted after the sponsor of the trial, Pfizer, discovered that blood samples from the study had been matched to the wrong participants. The main results of TNT, published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine, had a major impact on clinical practice and statin prescription patterns. The […]