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.
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 ...
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 England Journal of Medicine

Randomized, Controlled Trial of the FGF21 Analogue Pegozafermin in NASH

Pegozafermin is a long-acting glycopegylated (pegylated with the use of site-specific glycosyltransferases) fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) analogue in development for the treatment of ...
ascopubs.org

Video-based genetic counseling to reduce physician workload and enhance consulter understanding: A prospective randomized clinical trial.

Remote clinical pharmacist impact on reducing total cost of care in Enhancing Oncology Model–enrolled oncology practices. Electronic patient-reported outcome-based weight management versus usual care ...
Medscape

‘Major Gap’ in Many Randomized Controlled Trials of Major Depressive Disorder

AMSTERDAM — At least one third of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) would not qualify for inclusion in many randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that help guide the use of antidepressants, ...
BMJ

Quadriceps or hip exercises for patellofemoral pain? A randomised controlled equivalence trial

Objective To assess effectiveness equivalence between two commonly prescribed 12-week exercise programmes targeting either the quadriceps or the hip muscles in patients with patellofemoral pain (PFP).