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 ...
Open Heart

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists for acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Background The role of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) in acute myocardial infarction (MI) remains ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Ivermectin to Control Malaria — A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Malaria control and elimination is threatened by the spread of insecticide resistance and behavioral adaptation of vectors. Whether mass administration of ivermectin, a broad-spectrum antiparasitic ...
ascopubs.org

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 ...
BMJ Open

Pilot randomised controlled trial of the self-help plus stress management intervention among patients with breast and gynaecological cancer in Viet Nam: a study protocol

Introduction Implementation of low-intensity, evidence-based psychological interventions can help meet the mental health and ...
STAT

Why Silicon Valley should demand clinical trials for its medical AI

Elemento is the director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Sternberg is the clinical director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. Khozin is ...