Companies do pare back research budgets when times are tough. This has a cost, however.

Small businesses can be hit hard in a big recall, as they rarely have a staff to handle one.

Dr. Zarnowitz was an expert on business cycles who for decades traced the history of economic predictions — and often found the forecasting faulty.

Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh were arrested for allegedly running a small-scale version of the $50 billion fraud that Bernard L. Madoff is suspected of orchestrating.

Experts worry that cities aren’t ready to oversee the energy-efficiency money coming their way.

Researchers are urging the F.D.A. to develop fact boxes for medicine similar to the nutrition panels on food packaging.

A federal appeals court affirmed the insider trading conviction of Joseph P. Nacchio, finding that a trial court had properly excluded expert witness testimony.

Addressing variations in the cost of care will be critical in overhauling the nation’s health care system.

The government has increased its support of the student loan market so much that there is a question of whether there is a role for private lenders at all.

The Justice Department charged Forest Laboratories with defrauding the government of millions of dollars by illegally marketing the antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro.