Corrections and misreporting in health and medical news coverage.
BBC News has corrected its reporting on the Nipah virus outbreak after earlier coverage overstated the number of confirmed cases and implied a wider…
The Telegraph corrected two health articles after overstating the strength of evidence, presenting correlation as causation in reporting on toddlers’…
The New York Times corrected an obituary of Dr. Joel Habener after misstating his relationship with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The Guardian corrected an NHS winter pressures article after clarifying that a mortality estimate attributed to last winter in fact covered the whole of…
The Guardian revised its climate finance report after acknowledging that key institutions criticised in the article were not offered a right of reply…
The New York Times corrected its reporting on the F.D.A.’s expanded Covid vaccine inquiry after misstating that pertussis is caused by a virus rather than…
The New York Times corrected its reporting on abortion access after misstating a national statistic in a feature on Carbondale, Illinois.
CNN corrected its reporting on polio eradication funding, clarifying that US aid for polio has not been definitively cut and that future funding levels…
Few subjects attract more confident conclusions than falling birth rates. They are routinely framed as evidence of political neglect, social breakdown or…
WalesOnline has clarified that the 12-hour A&E figure in its report referred to more than 10,000 patients who waited that long or longer in October, not…
NPR has corrected its report on lenacapavir, clarifying that the HIV-prevention injection is administered in the abdomen or thigh, not the arm.
The Telegraph has clarified that an NHS article about first-cousin marriage was educational, not formal guidance endorsing the practice.
Politico has clarified that an individual earning $28,000 would face a 380 percent premium increase if Obamacare’s enhanced subsidies expire.
The BBC has clarified that the planned nuclear waste facility in Lincolnshire is located offshore, with only the entrance and some tunnelling beneath the…
NPR has clarified that GLP-1 agonist drugs for obesity were first approved in 2014, not 2021 as previously reported.
The BBC has clarified that 23 people, not 40 as first reported, have died in Haiti following flooding linked to Hurricane Melissa.
The Guardian has clarified that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a financing and partnership organisation, not one based on…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has clarified that the potential taxpayer cost of Healthscope’s proposed tax break scheme is uncertain.
The Times has corrected its October 10 headline after wrongly suggesting that the British Medical Association (BMA) had urged GPs to overwhelm accident…
The BBC has corrected its report to state that the number of drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2023 was 1,172, not 1,339.
NPR has corrected its reporting after the apple cider vinegar weight-loss study it cited was retracted.
The Guardian has issued a correction to its September 26 article, “What is leucovorin, the drug the FDA approved to treat autism?”, after misstating a key…
NPR has issued a correction to its coverage of the White House announcement on acetaminophen and autism after misstating the prevalence of the condition.
The Guardian recently ran a story on new scientific research that connects fine-particulate air pollution to Lewy body dementia, but its framing risks…
