Such designs show that although prenatal cigarette smoking lowers birth weight, it does not appear to be causal for offspring ADHD. (6) Similar research designs have not supported causal claims about ...

Trials should assess overall survival to evaluate potential harm, with crossover limited to avoid confounding treatment ...

Last year, the NHS prescribed paracetamol over 15 million times and the average person takes 70 a year. But while the ...

A New York Times health reporter explains what makes a good study, and how she knows which papers merit an article.

The findings sparked a debate about the merits of RCTs vs other study designs—one surgeon urged others to “read a textbook.” ...

Combined testing uptake (HCV RDT or HCV RDT/RNA) was higher for the community-based strategy than for the facility-based ...

VIENNA — Tirzepatide was associated with improvements in body weight and body composition, and with lower insulin doses, in the first-ever randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the drug in people with ...

Purpose To determine the effects of advanced spectacle lens technologies on changes in spherical equivalent of refraction (SER) and axial length (AL) elongation in slowing down the progression of ...

Baxdrostat 1 mg or 2 mg once daily led to statistically significant reductions in blood pressure compared with placebo at 12 weeks in patients with uncontrolled or treatment-resistant hypertension, ...

bDepartment of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China cDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine, ...

1 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Gansu, China 2 Center for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ...

The media tycoon, jailed since 2020, ran a now-defunct newspaper that was critical of the government. By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong One of the few tycoons who dared to insult the Chinese ...