2/3
Fraction of retracted biomedical and life science research papers that have been retracted due to misconduct, such as fraud, duplicate publication and plagiarism — not error, according to a 2012 review in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesopens in new window.
6.4
Number of serious injuries in the United States per 100,000 children 18 and under in 2009, a slight increase from 1997, when the rate was 6.1 injuries per 100,000 children, according to a new study in Pediatrics.
32%
How much less likely women Medicaid beneficiaries with mental illness were to get screening mammograms than their counterparts without mental illness, after adjusting for potential confounders, according to a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicineopens in new window.
1/3
Proportion of U.S. employees who have faked an illness to skip work in the past year, according to a Careerbuilder.comopens in new window survey of nearly 6,500 workers.