Medical research shapes healthcare every day, but not all studies are created equal. Knowing the differences can help you feel more confident reading health information online and understanding what ...

A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us.

Clinical trials are well-controlled and designed experiments that aim to prove that an Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) is effective. Clinical trial data is submitted to the national health ...

An expert from the FDA explained the benefits and limitations of these two clinical trial formats and how the cancer field can learn from both. The use of single-arm trials, in which all patients ...

A new Danish analysis of more than 25 years of research on non-specific vaccine effects shows that prominent researchers have systematically over-interpreted the findings from their randomized trials.

Simulations of a real-world explanatory trial of transarterial radioembolization for advanced unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein invasion were performed to examine the effects of ...