medical research

The Economist There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research IN 2011 BEN MOL, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, in Melbourne, came across a retraction notice for a study on uterine fibroids and infertility published by a researcher in Egypt. The journal...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2021.1922731 Most public and non-profit organisations that fund health research provide the majority of their funding in the form of grants. The calls for grant applications are often untargeted, such that a wide variety of applications may...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0697-7 behind a paywall and no sci-hub link but readable here:

"Funding is harder to find in general, and the current approach favors low-risk research and proposals by older scientists...." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/upshot/why-the-medical-research-grant-system-could-be-costing-us-great-ideas.html

Edit: Argh, it's four years old! :( Interesting, and one can make comments, @dave30th! https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/01/31/richard-smith-medical-research-still-a-scandal/

#ME Action Network have just announced a fundraiser for a U.K. organiser. “to support another year of mass awareness, medical and scientific outreach, advocacy, and community for impact like #MillionsMissing and our parliamentary actions” Edit: Link will be added when can work out how to do...

The author has ME. " 6 February 2018 — 11:00pm As recently as 1921, MS (multiple sclerosis) was erroneously considered more common in men. By the late 1940s, a more even gender split was presumed. By 1960 it was posited that women might actually be slightly more prone to the condition. With the...