A new global initiative aims to catch flawed or manipulated medical studies before they mislead doctors, harm patients, or ...

No other scientific journal wields as much influence in the medical world as the New England Journal of Medicine. In this ...

Five years after a widely revered study was debunked as totally bogus, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether trust in the ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches, a new study finds.

The results of technology research and development must find their way into the published literature. New models of regulation could help.

Scholars must show ‘willingness to question assumptions, to seek new evidence, and to resist pressure to conform,’ professor ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted to recommend annual flu vaccines but against flu shots containing the preservative thimerosal ...

The TACO theory was coined in early May by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, who added a catchy acronym to the ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

The year 2025 marks 31 years of South Africa’s constitutional democracy and 26 years since the inception of its land reform programme. This three-tier ...

A new meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies found that higher whole grain intake is linked to a significantly lower ...

Martin Wittenberg and Andrew Kerr School of Economics and DataFirst, University of Cape Town Abstract: In this paper we deal with some of the criticisms levelled at us and DataFirst. We also produce ...