A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday retracted the March 2020 study ...

The authors of a study about the environmental effects of exploratory drilling for a proposed lithium mine in Serbia say their analysis was retracted at the behest of employees working for the mining ...

A controversial scientific paper that claimed the weed killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup) "does not pose a health risk to humans" has been formally retracted 25 years after publication due to ...

A scientific journal has retracted a bedrock study which found that glyphosate – the active ingredient in one of the most widely used herbicides on the planet – does not pose a human health risk, ...

At least 10 major news organizations have either amended or retracted articles they published about a Chinese man portrayed as a government dissident — but who turned out to be a con man. The changes ...

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. Systematic reviews, which involve pooling data from multiple studies ...

A 2000 paper on the safety of glyphosate, the chemical in the weed killer Roundup, has been retracted. It turns out it was ghostwritten by employees of Monsanto, the company that makes Roundup, and ...

According to a recent study, women are less likely than men to engage in misconduct when publishing biomedical research. The analysis, published in PLoS One, found that women were markedly ...