The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is to decide if it should retract two articles which claimed drugs taken by millions of Britons to reduce cholesterol caused harmful side effects and did not cut death rates.
Articles published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in October last year suggested that cholesterol drugs, statins, may be harmful. However those articles are now to be investigated to ascertain if their claims are misleading. The Journal will set up an expert panel to decide if it should retract two articles which said the cholesterol-reducing…
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