In the 1940s, medical researchers began using randomized controlled trials to assess the efficacy of health interventions. In RCTs, researchers create randomly assigned treatment and control groups, ...
Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria remains a pressing public health problem. The Pf life cycle includes (1) sporozoites, injected by infected mosquitoes during feeding and then invade hepatocytes and ...
“Well, we don’t have as much evidence as we would like on steroid use during pregnancy,” the obstetrician warned my co-author, Natalia Emanuel, as she wrote a prescription for inhaled corticosteroids ...
Group-based social skills interventions (GSSIs) are one of the primary intervention methods for improving core social competence challenges in school-aged and adolescent autistic youth 1,2. GSSIs have ...
Final results from a landmark EORTC randomized trial with more than 20 years of follow-up show that irradiation of the internal mammary and medial supraclavicular lymph nodes reduces breast cancer ...
A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us. Credit...Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal is a health ...
Collaboration report an individual participant data meta-analysis of double-blind randomised controlled trials (RCTs) assessing whether adverse outcomes listed in statin product labels are causally ...