Concordance needs to be earned, not assumed Although randomised controlled trials remain the reference standard for assessing ...

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, ...

Medical research shapes healthcare every day, but not all studies are created equal. Knowing the differences can help you feel more confident reading health information online and understanding what ...

Tesamorelin can selectively reduce visceral fat, as demonstrated in RCTs. But the real story is what it reveals about metabolism, peptides, and the future of self-driven health ...

“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 ...

Resources for observational comparative research have expanded enormously in recent years to include very large sources of ...

In recent book, UChicago’s Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley argue that the research method isn’t always the best tool ...

According to a report, many treatments used in Africa are based on data drawn from non-African populations, raising concerns about their applicability as growing evidence shows that genetics, ...