The study published on the BMJ website said patients taking Actos had fewer heart problems.
Writing in the BMJ this week, they said data from six other trials had shown similar findings.
The FDA analysis of posted clinical trial data from May 2012 appears to contradict the BMJ study.
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The FDA is now reviewing the papers, which were given to the BMJ by an anonymous source.
The FAA has not made any specific statements on medical requirements for commercial space passengers, the BMJ authors noted.
Now the BMJ has published an investigation by British journalist Brian Deer finding that the whole thing was a fraud.
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The BMJ compared policies to six standards produced by Public Concern at Work, an independent authority set up to encourage whistle-blowing.
Health authorities should consider more widespread testing for HIV, given the benefits of early treatment, UK researchers report in the BMJ.
The failure of this FDA regulation has been discussed at length in the BMJ, in JAMA, and in many other outlets.
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Both the editor of the BMJ and a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine have criticised this heavy-handed approach.
Researchers found the number of drugs introduced during the last 30 years had in fact increased slightly, the BMJ Open journal reported.
In other research, published in the BMJ, doctors warned that driver air bags offered relatively little benefit to motorists compared to seat belts.
In an editorial the BMJ said it wanted the British Medical Association and royal colleges to move their position from opposition to neutrality.
These guidelines were published in the BMJ in 2009.4 Your readers may be most interested in the responsibilities of sponsors and authors (extract below).
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German surgeon Michael Haake, who led the BMJ study, argues that the apparent benefits of the heel procedure are nothing more than a placebo effect.
Writing in the BMJ, Professor Neena Modi from Imperial College London said the study was important because it provided the most up-to-date information on survival rates.
During that time average life expectancy increased from 30 to almost 46 years from the time of diagnosis, according to the data, reported in the BMJ.
The BMJ said it backed calls from the campaign group Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying (HPAD) which wanted medical bodies to be neutral on the issue.
Iona Heath, president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, wrote in the BMJ last month that the "apparently burgeoning enthusiasm" for assisted dying seemed surprising given recent history.
Dr Richard Kalpit, the clinical reviewer at the US Food and Drug Administration, the US drugs regulator, who approved the drug, told the BMJ he was not given the data included in the documents.
The company subsequently won the case but was later forced to admit that it had made a secret settlement with the plaintiffs during the trial, which meant that the verdict was invalid, the BMJ reported.
Writing in the journal BMJ, Susan Mayor highlighted the skeptical interpretation.
The study, published online Monday in the journal BMJ Quality and Safety, underscores the trade-offs in the diagnostic process: More medical tests generally improve detection, but they can also increase costs, harm patients, and produce false positives.
Vaccination levels plunged as low as 80% in the U.K., according to BMJ, well below the 95% needed to insure herd immunity.
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Release of the editorial comes as a study published by BMJ Open - part of the British Medical Journal group - claimed that GPs were at high risk of burnout.
This is a real journal, published by BMJ, the publishers of the well-known journal by the same name (the British Medical Journal).
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The methods used to embalm the head also matched techniques in use at the time of his death, said the scientists in a report published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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