In the August 2013 Biomedical Briefing (Nat. Med. 19, 956–957, 2013), the chart showing worldwide total pharmaceutical R&D spending 2004–2018 failed to indicate that the values for 2013–2018 are projected numbers. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

In the August 2013 news feature “A future, on ice” (Nat. Med. 19, 958–961, 2013), Kutluk Oktay's last name was misspelled as Otkay in one instance. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.