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After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to ...

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Dozens of problematic papers remain in the literature, after a publication hit by fraudsters pledged to tackle the issue.

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The fierce debate about smartphones and adolescent mental health rests on conflicting science. Researchers and technology ...

More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS have been abruptly terminated in the past few weeks.