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Senate Democrats release scathing report on Medicare Advantage denials
Source: Washington State Hospital Association The Senate report is the latest example of increased scrutiny being applied to Medicare Advantage after years of complaints about care denials.
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AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences
Source: Bloomberg About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
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Academic integrity—a brief history, a proposed definition, guidelines, and violations
Source: The BMJ In recent years concern about academic integrity, or rather the lack of it, has increased markedly, particularly in the area of research integrity.
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My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next
Source: Nature As part of a healthy scientific community, I accepted my mistake — but I’ve come to realize that authors of reply papers need more support.
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‘Anonymous’ genetic databases vulnerable to privacy leaks
Source: Nature The ability to link private and public data sets could be putting research participants’ private health information at risk.
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A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Source: The Transmitter Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
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October as Biosafety and Biosecurity Month: Promoting Safety and Compliance in Research Environments
Source: Convergence Every October, institutions across the country participate in Biosafety and Biosecurity Month, a campaign led by the American Biological Safety Association to promote a culture of safety and responsibility in research environments.
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Revisiting the Declaration of Helsinki—A Patient-Centered Perspective
Source: JAMA Network The Declaration of Helsinki has long stood as a foundational text in medical research ethics, shaping the ethical principles that govern human participation in clinical research.
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Clinical-trial reporting is on the rise
Source: Nature Although some countries have made marked strides in reporting trial results, others still face a long road ahead.
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How to make cardiology clinical trials more inclusive
Source: Nature Cardiovascular clinical trials continue to under-represent children, older adults, females and people from ethnic minority groups relative to population disease distribution.
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Why were so few randomized trials of public health and social measures conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Norwegian experience
Source: BMC Few randomized trials of public health and social measures were carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. We report on the major barriers we faced when we tried to run such trials.
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Humana to pay $90 mln to settle claim that it overcharged Medicare for drugs
Source: Reuters Humana has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit by one of its former actuaries accusing the health insurer of overcharging the U.S. government for prescription drugs, the whistleblower's lawyers announced on Friday.
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