Check out this article, Searching for Clarity: A Primer on Medical Studies, from the New York Times (published September 30, 2008) by Gina Kolata. The article provides an overview of medical research and three basic principles for understanding medical findings from clinical trials.
The article also includes a link to “How to Read a Medical Study (Skeptically).”

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Nature recently announced that genome papers will now be licensed under a “Creative Commons” license to “. . . encourage research and development and to maximise its benefit to society.”

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Ear and Hearing recently announced that it will allow authors to comply with policies set forth by funding agencies that stipulate that publications generated by agency-funded research be publicly available.  Authors who publish in Ear and Hearing can submit their post-print (the author’s final version that reflects changes made as a result of the peer review process) to an [...]

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“Sharing Detailed Research Data is Associated with Increased Citation Rate“ documents a study of cancer microarray clinical trial publications in which a correlation between publicly available microarray data and increased literature impact was found.

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