One way scientists have studied COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness is by focusing on sick people who were admitted to hospitals ...

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W&M Government students took their research to the West Coast. This April Professor Larry Evans and a cohort of students ...

When President Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, he declared that the appointment marked the return of “Gold Standard Scie ...

The Trump administration says it's returning U.S. science to a golden era. Critics say it's tarnished by political agendas.

Scholars are debating the results of an effort to assess hundreds of papers’ credibility. Where some see failure and cause for urgent reform, others see reason for hope.

Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results. Jelte M. Wicherts is in the Department of ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

For the last few years, I have become immersed in the new worlds of big data and large language models. I’m embarrassed to say how much I love them. These technologies are among the most exciting I ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Even in this starkly divided country, Americans can agree on one ...