Why you should be pleased we run trials on nudges, even if you don't like nudges (or trials)

Last year, we ran a randomized controlled trial working with frontline workers in the homelessness sector, which aimed to ...

Invivyd Announces Initiation of DECLARATION Clinical Trial, a Phase 3 Placebo-Controlled Pivotal Study of VYD2311, a Vaccine-Alternative Antibody to Prevent COVID

DECLARATION is a Phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of VYD2311 in the prevention of COVID ...
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Effect of an Invitation or the Effect of Participation: What Should Randomized Controlled Trials of Cancer Screening Examine?

Personalized Chemotherapy on the Basis of Tumor Marker Decline in Poor-Prognosis Germ-Cell Tumors: Updated Analysis of the GETUG-13 Phase III Trial Earlier detection of cancer offers an opportunity to ...
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 ...
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Study: Mixed results in using lipoic acid to treat progressive multiple sclerosis

The over-the-counter supplement lipoic acid may have a small beneficial effect in slowing the loss of gray matter in the ...
BMJ

Exercise training and resting blood pressure: a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Objective To perform a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis on the effects of all relevant exercise training modes on resting blood pressure to establish optimal antihypertensive exercise ...
BMJ Open

High-dose intermittent theta burst stimulation targeting the individualised frontoparietal cognitive network for post-stroke cognitive impairment: protocol for a randomised ...

Introduction Cognitive impairment is a common consequence after stroke. Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) has emerged as a promising cognitive therapy. However, traditional iTBS typically ...