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Medical writers and editors for the general press don't intend to inflict cruelty on suffering people. But that's what they often deliver in the rote-journalism pursuit of informing the public of new developments in medical research, no matter how distant they may be from therapeutic application. News of direct health value to the public deserves the prompt coverage that it regularly receives. But not so the mere research fragments that raise unrealistic hopes, leaving distressed people empt

A row over patent rights and science-by-press-release has university researchers trading barbs

Director of bank says first labs are in place and outlines rules of engagement

, second paper also retracted

Additional published research affected by drug mix-up

Movement on 2004 budgets for NIH, NSF, and BioShield slower than hoped

should publish referees' reports

Hopes that alliance will make Barcelona an international center for biomedical research

Rockefeller's Robert G. Roeder, Imperial College's Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini are other winners

New SARS case worked in containment lab that did work on SARS virus

Architect of 7-year NIH grant review overhaul will return to research

UK Biosciences Federation to be inaugurated next week will represent 61,000 life scientists