Retraction notice

At the request of the Journal’s Editor, the Publisher and the authors, the following article has been retracted. Li J, Jones JT, Donnelly C, Cunningham N, Kashikar-Zuck S and Brunner HI. Pain predicts poorer health-related quality of life in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort study. Journal of International Medical Research. Epub ahead of print 6 December 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0300060517732486 . http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300060517732486 The article has been retracted from Journal of International Medical Research because the co-authors of the paper had not consented to the paper’s submission for publication, and because the paper does not present the complete findings of the authors’ research. The corresponding author, Dr Li, submitted the paper with fraudulent contact details for his co-authors and without their consent to submit. Furthermore, the paper made use of an incomplete measurement scale that did not accurately reflect the complete findings of the study, which found other significant variables affected the value of using pain to measure the health-related quality of life of lupus patients. The complete findings of the study are presented in another paper published by the same authors: Donnelly C, Cunningham N, Jones JT, Li J, Brunner HI and Kashikar-Zuck S. Fatigue and depression predict reduced health-related quality of life in childhood-onset lupus. Lupus 2017; 27: 124–133. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961203317716317

RETRACTED: Pain predicts poorer health-related quality of life in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort study

At the request of the Journal’s Editor, the Publisher and the authors, the following article has been retracted. Li J, Jones JT, Donnelly C, Cunningham N, Kashikar-Zuck S and Brunner HI. Pain predicts poorer health-related quality of life in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort study. Journal of International Medical Research. Epub ahead of print 6 December 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0300060517732486. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300060517732486 The article has been retracted from Journal of International Medical Research because the co-authors of the paper had not consented to the paper’s submission for publication, and because the paper does not present the complete findings of the authors’ research. The corresponding author, Dr Li, submitted the paper with fraudulent contact details for his co-authors and without their consent to submit. Furthermore, the paper made use of an incomplete measurement scale that did not accurately reflect the complete findings of the study, which found other significant variables affected the value of using pain to measure the health-related quality of life of lupus patients. The complete findings of the study are presented in another paper published by the same authors: Donnelly C, Cunningham N, Jones JT, Li J, Brunner HI and Kashikar-Zuck S. Fatigue and depression predict reduced health-related quality of life in childhood-onset lupus. Lupus 2017; 27: 124–133. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961203317716317

Andrewes's christmas fairy tale: atypical thinking about cancer aetiology in 1935

This paper uses a short ‘Christmas fairy-story for oncologists’ sent by Christopher Andrewes with a 1935 letter to Peyton Rous as the centrepiece of a reflection on the state of knowledge and speculation about the viral aetiology of cancer in the 1930s. Although explicitly not intended for public circulation at the time, the fairy-story merits publication for its significance in the history of ideas about viruses, which are taken for granted today. Andrewes and Rous were prominent members of the international medical research community and yet faced strong resistance to their theory that viruses could cause such tumours as chicken sarcomas and rabbit papillomas. By looking at exchanges between these men among themselves and other proponents of their theories and with their oncologist detractors, we highlight an episode in the behind-the-scenes workings of medical science and show how informal correspondence helped keep alive a vital but then heterodox idea about the role of viruses in causing cancer.