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The article discusses the influence that the U.S. sugar industry had on research on the relationship between eating sugar and cardiovascular diseases during the 1960s and 1970s, including the sugar industry's funding of research on the topic and their blaming saturated fat for heart diseases. The article references a paper within the "JAMA" journal by Stanton Glantz.

Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem-cell research, was convicted Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds. A judge sentenced him to a suspended two-year prison term, saying Dr. Hwang had shown remorse and had not taken research money for personal use. Dr. Hwang was once hailed as a national hero in the South. His school, Seoul National University, disowned him in 2005, saying that he had fabricated the papers he had published to global acclaim. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the issuance of a memorandum by John P. Holdren, science adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama which calls for a free access to scientific papers reporting results of federally financed research within a year after its publication in the U.S.

Reports on the recommendations of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament that papers resulting from government-financed research can be made available free. Pressure made by the Association of American Publishers, a trade group that represents most major book publishers in the U.S., on members of the U.S. Congress to gut the open-access to the results of research; Views of scholars and librarians; Information on the report of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee which revealed that taxpayers have insufficient access to the results of research.

Reports that a study prepared for the US National Science Foundation found strong evidence that publicly financed scientific research plays an important role in the breakthroughs of industrial innovation. Findings of the study; Advocates of federal spending on scientific research as seizing upon the study to bolster their position; Figures on private spending for research, and sources of scientific papers cited on US industrial patents. INSET: Research: Public vs. private..