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The Lancet was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet (scalpel). [3] According to BBC, the journal was initially considered to be radical following its founding.
Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion ...
At first, the editor of the Lancet was not named in the journal, but after a few weeks, rumours began to circulate. After the journal began printing the content of Sir Astley Cooper's lectures without permission, the great man paid a surprise visit to his former pupil to discover Wakley correcting the proofs of the next issue.
The journal addresses both the potential and the challenges of digital health, including issues of patient privacy, regulatory needs, and safety. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and engaging a global community of researchers, clinicians, and policymakers, The Lancet Digital Health is a critical resource for shaping the responsible and ...
The Lancet ' s editor-in-chief Richard Horton described it as "utterly false" and said that the journal had been deceived. [ 49 ] The Hansard text for 16 March 2010 reported [ 74 ] Lord McColl asking the Government whether it had plans to recover legal aid money paid to the experts in connection with the measles, mumps and rubella/measles and ...
Richard Charles Horton (born 29 December 1961) is editor-in-chief of The Lancet, a United Kingdom–based medical journal.He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and the University of Oslo.
Two letters subsequently published in the Lancet journal challenged this graph as erroneous and misleading, [75] [76] and the authors of the study conceded these problems, saying that they intended to illustrate their similar escalation. [77] Figure 4 from the October 2006 Lancet survey of Iraq War mortality, showing a comparison of 3 mortality ...
In May 2010, The American Journal of Gastroenterology retracted a paper of Wakefield's that used data from the 12 patients of the article in The Lancet. [105] On 5 January 2011, British Medical Journal editors recommended that Wakefield's other publications be scrutinized and retracted if need be. [45]