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The original report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress.
The agency will encourage new clinical trials on Covid-19 vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.
In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...
Yale psychiatrist Albert Powers didn’t know what to expect as he strolled among the tarot card readers, astrologers, and crystal vendors at the psychic fair held at the Best Western outside North ...
On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth.
In many Western societies, parents eagerly await their children’s first words, then celebrate their arrival. There’s also a vast scientific and popular attention to early child language. Yet there is ...
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This reorganization threatens the existence of a tiny but crucial program housed within ...
Tamar Antin studies smoking. As an anthropologist who has published research in scientific journals for the last 20 years, she’s accustomed to editors polishing her manuscripts. But recently, she sent ...