Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

An editorial error occurred in the author's reply by Jonathan Reeve (18 May, p 1218). “Verbatim” was incorrectly used instead of “hearsay” in the first sentence. The sentence should have read: “Kuijpers et al are right to correct my editorial, which left my desk on 13 September 2001, when I was still relying on hearsay [not verbatim] accounts of the Food and Drug Administration's hearing.”