Medical preprints go live on the server medRxiv

Here’s an update on something I alerted you to earlier this month: The preprint server for medical papers — called medRxiv — has just postedits first batch. These studies cover a range of topics: One discusses a machine learning algorithm that can predict which patients will die after hospital admission, while another provides data that reinforces some of the cardiovascular risks associated with the diabetes drug rosiglitazone. MedRxiv, which is run jointly by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and the BMJ, has already had to turn away some authors for violating guidelines. They asked authors of other work to get their papers peer-reviewed because the findings were deemed too significant to post to a public forum and potentially leave them open to misinterpretation