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The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.

A medical journal argues yes, and its authors are joining a quiet chorus of advocates who say the government should be allowed to intervene in extreme cases.

(MedPage Today) -- A possible link between exposure to anesthesia and brain development in young children is the subject of both an FDA panel meeting on Thursday and an article written in a major medical journal by agency officials.

ATLANTA (AP) -- This week more shame was heaped upon the discredited British researcher whose work gave rise to the childhood-vaccines-cause-autism movement, as a prominent medical journal published a report that the man had faked his data.

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The medical journal BMJ has declared the 1998 Lancet study that implied a link between the MMR vaccine and autism “an elaborate fraud.”

(MedPage Today) -- In an article and editorial published online, a leading medical journal, BMJ, has taken aim at a competitor, The Lancet, by singling out a controversial paper that falsely linked a vaccine to increased risk of autism.

GENEVA (AP) -- A major international study into the link between cell phone use and two types of brain cancer has proved inconclusive, according to a report in a medical journal due to be published later this week....

(American Academy of Neurology) Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the Nov. 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report....