Researchers' advice stirs issue of conflict
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Dr. David Van Wyck , a respected researcher and kidney disease specialist, seemed a natural choice to lead a National Kidney Foundation panel charged with updating physician guidelines for treating anemia in kidney patients.
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The head of the U.S. National  Institutes of Health said he wants government and academic  leaders to meet to address conflicts of interest in medical  research, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
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A Texas A&M researcher says studies showing connections between video games and violent behavior suffer from shoddy research techniques and bias. In Game|Life.
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A new study looking at aggressive attempts to lower cholesterol in patients who had just suffered heart attacks generated a dispute yesterday as top researchers disagreed sharply over the results.
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The public needs to have greater say in scientific decision-making, the British Association leader says.
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A Washington-based think tank has been soliciting critiques of the just-released international assessment of the evidence on climate change, a move that prompted some academics and environmentalists to accuse the group of seeking to distort the latest evidence for global warming.
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Volunteers are to be 'burnt' by scientists to see if faith eases pain.
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Iconoclasts at heart, the best scientists are faced with an occupational hazard: having left their mark on one small patch of ground, they are tempted to stir up trouble elsewhere.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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Experts are questioning a studyâs linking a 2004 increase in the suicide rate for children and adolescents to a warning by drug regulators about the use of antidepressants in minors.
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Controls are needed to ensure genetic information for research is not used by outside parties, warn experts.
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Almost one-fifth of agency scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite reservations.
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With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration's use of scientific advice, this election year is seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science and politics.
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Staying uninvolved while interviewing participants for a study about the effect of food shortages on H.I.V. treatment is often difficult, one researcher finds.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Robust research doesn't guarantee success, but Pedro Zuloaga insists it stacks your odds.
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Scientists risk debates on their research being shaped by minority "maverick" views, Lord Martin Rees warns.