It’s the year many negotiators got seriously tough on double dipping – charging for both the ability to read (via subscriptions) and for…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the BrinkRead more
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Health Pylori Story #4: The Microbe RevoltRead more
Could any life form survive in the stomach’s sizzling acid? Most thought there was no chance! And yet…there were occasional unexplained sightings&hellip…
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Health Pylori Story #3: Drug Wars – The Lab Strikes BackRead more
Scientists plotted in their labs, looking for a chemical target to stop the acid. The first lead was a hormone trigger for…
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Health Pylori Story #2: Journey to the Center of the StomachRead more
For hundreds of years, doctors battled dim light that burned! Lenses and gadgets that showed too little! But when the breakthrough to…
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Health Pylori Story #1: Acid AttackRead more
Digestion! Stomach grinds, fermentation sparked by vitalism… Even Pasteur believed it! But others said chemistry could do it. They found… acid. But…
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Listicles 8 PubMed Ninja SkillsRead more
A few million people use PubMed every day – many pretty much every day. And everyone’s got their own habits, shortcuts, and…
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History Science and the Rise of the Co-AuthorsRead more
Physicists set a new record this year for number of co-authors: a 9-page report needed an extra 24 pages to list its 5,154…
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History Curiosity to Scrutiny: the Early Days of Science JournalismRead more
1894: “[T]he acknowledged leaders of the great generation that is now passing away, Darwin notably, addressed themselves in many cases to…
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Science Communication Why Aren’t We All Machine-Friendly Researchers?Read more
I blame the writing and research impact advice we get. At least in part. It doesn’t prepare us as well as it could…
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Bias The Mess That Trials Stopped Early Can Leave BehindRead more
Many trials end with a whimper. But some end with a bang. Press release, press conference, lots of fanfare &ndash…
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Evidence Post-SPRINT Trial HeadachesRead more
On 11 September, some 9,300 participants in the SPRINT trial were sent a letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The letter told…
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Evidence 5 Key Things to Know About Data on Adverse EffectsRead more
The potential harms of interventions are tricky to get a handle on. Our feelings about them are, too. It wouldn’t be…