A paper"Silent Myocardial Infarction: A Case Report", was published in Cureus in August 2023, by a medical student and an associate professor in Florida has been retracted for errors with the central finding of the study, an electrocardiogram whose labeling "does not actually represent any of the characteristics" of the tracing.
The lead author of the latest retracted paper is Maria Kolesova, who was a medical student at Florida International University, in Boca Raton, at the time of publication. The corresponding author, Suzanne Minor, told in an email she was "mentoring" Kolesova by helping her prepare the manuscript and said she agreed with the retraction. "The image is not labeled accurately, unfortunately, and this was missed in the submission", Minor wrote.
Cureus has retracted a number of papers recently. In October 2024, the journal said it would retract a case report in which the original physicians weren’t credited, then changed its mind. In August 2024, the journal retracted an article for plagiarizing images from an online lecture. In another case study example, Cureus retracted a redundant article that duplicated a report on the same patient but with different authors. Cureus has retracted 13 articles so far this year, according to the Retraction Watch database.
