Medical Xpress

Randomized controlled trials could be harming nonprofits, experts argue

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, ...
STAT

Keeping pregnant participants out of medical research is more dangerous than including them

“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 ...
The New York Times

What Are Clinical Trials, and How Do They Work?

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 ...
BMJ Open

Protocol for the economic evaluation of integrated longitudinal public health interventions in a cluster randomised controlled trial setting: the healthy life trajectories ...

Introduction In 2021, globally, cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) accounted for 35% of the 1.73 billion disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to non-communicable diseases. The Healthy Life ...