Obesity is a major public health problem worldwide. Different approaches are known to face this problem, for example, dieting, surgery, or drug interventions. It has also been shown that placebos may ...

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, ...

This pragmatic randomized controlled trial aimed to assess the effect of a passive display of artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictive analytics on hours free of clinical deterioration events ...

A thought experiment in prevention: What if dogs do more for cardiovascular health than statins? Let’s examine the data, ...

Tesamorelin can selectively reduce visceral fat, as demonstrated in RCTs. But the real story is what it reveals about ...

“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 ...

Introduction Cannabis use is common in the USA and is associated with adverse outcomes across many domains, including sleep difficulties. Targeting insomnia with an evidence-based treatment could ...

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 ...

Last December, news broke that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had awarded $1.6 million to a Danish vaccine research group to study the effects of the hepatitis B vaccine on infants in ...

Randomized controlled trials provide ‘weak support’ for the idea that ultraprocessed foods are ‘inherently harmful’ simply ...

DECLARATION is a Phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of VYD2311 in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19 versus placebo, at three months, from a ...