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. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...

WASHINGTON-Scientists have begun to consider changes in fundamental publication and research practices in the wake of several well-publicized cases of research misconduct. Panel Backs Journal ...

Medical journals should print retractions of questioned or fraudulent research even if the lead author or co-authors have not submitted or approved such statements said a top official of the ...

After an academic journal retracted two scientific papers this week that are central to the pending Supreme Court case on the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, ...

A former researcher at Nemours Children's Health in Delaware has admitted to falsifying data, leading to the retraction of two published scientific articles affiliated with Nemours and the University ...

Two American Heart Association (AHA) journals, Circulation and Circulation Research, have retracted 13 papers from the now defunct laboratory of cardiac stem cell researcher Piero Anversa, MD. All 13 ...

Douglas Zipes, MD, professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and managing editor of Heart Rhythm, said St. Jude Medical’s request to retract an article about its recalled Riata ...

Research has become an important pillar in strengthening an institute’s foothold in global and national rankings. The spotlight on gauging and evaluating research has opened a can of worms—there are ...

St. Jude Medical, a medical device company, is seeking a retraction of a manuscript accepted for publication in the Heart Rhythm Journal that suggests its cardiac devices are prone to more deaths than ...

From 1983 to 2000, Wendy Rogers, BMBS, practiced primary care medicine in different settings in the United Kingdom and Australia. In the latter country, the single mother of two grew disillusioned ...