The News story 'Field trials aim to tackle poverty' (Nature 449, 957 ; 2007) implied that the idea of using mobile-phone-based reminders and time-based incentives to improve tuberculosis drug-regimen adherence originated at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In fact, the idea came from Viji Draviam of Harvard Medical School and Nishanth Sastry of MIT and the University of Cambridge, UK.
Published online 28 November 2007 | Nature 450, 599 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450599c
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The correction regarding attribution of "the idea of using mobile-phone-based reminders and time-based incentives to improve adherence to tuberculosis drug-regimen" to Viji Draviam of Harvard Medical School and Nishanth Sastry of MIT and the University of Cambridge, UK sounds very back-handed, and is not accompanied by any apologies. Shouldn't there be at the least a sentence saying "the error is regretted"?