Corrections

A summary can misstate a dose, a population, an endpoint, or an approval. When that happens, the article should change in public. The journal does not repair the record only in a private note.

What counts as a correction

A correction is a factual claim about a cited source that the source itself does not support. Examples include a wrong sample size, a wrong dose or duration, a preclinical study described as a human trial, a vendor code presented as the name of a registered trial, an approval status that the current label does not state, or a number copied from a commentary instead of from the paper’s table.

A disagreement about emphasis is not, by itself, a correction, if the underlying facts are stated accurately. A request to add dosing instructions, a product, or a personal regimen is not a correction. A product listing, a certificate of analysis, or a social-media post is not a source that overturns a paper.

How to send one

Use the contact page. Include three things: the address of the article on this site, the sentence you believe is wrong, and the primary source that shows the mistake. That source should be a PubMed record, a DOI, a ClinicalTrials.gov entry, or an agency document. Quote the relevant line or name the table. Do not include medical details about yourself or another person. This desk cannot interpret them and should not receive them.

What happens next

The editor checks the linked source against the sentence. If the sentence misstates the source, the article is edited. When the change alters a number, a population, or a statement about approval or trial status, the article notes the date of the change in the body so a reader can see that the text moved. The original error is not left standing as the lead claim.

If the source and the article already agree, the article stays as it is, and the note explains why. If the source has been updated since the article was written, the current source is followed and the summary is revised to match it. The journal does not keep an outdated approval claim for the sake of the archive.

Timing and scope

There is no promise of a same-day edit. Corrections that turn on a misread table are handled before stylistic revisions. The journal does not open a comment thread on the article. Comments stay closed so the corrected text, not a reply chain, is what the next reader sees.

The source remains the authority

A correction on this site repairs the summary. It does not amend the paper, the registry entry, or the label. Those records have their own correction processes. If you believe the underlying paper is wrong, that dispute belongs with the authors and the publisher, not only with this desk.