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.
The New England Journal of Medicine

Olezarsen for Managing Severe Hypertriglyceridemia and Pancreatitis Risk

Patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia have an increased risk of acute pancreatitis. The efficacy and safety of olezarsen, ...

Nature vs. nurture: Sequencing study quantifies genetic influence on human traits and diseases

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

Randomized trials show no evidence of non-specific vaccine effects

For more than three decades, researchers Christine Stabell Benn and Peter Aaby from the Bandim Health Project have conducted randomized trials involving thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau and ...

Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...
SpringerMedizin.at

Neoadjuvant therapy

Neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) for early breast cancer was first introduced in the 1980s to downstage large, inoperable tumors, ...