Penn researchers gamified walking to boost heart health, and won a $25 million grant

With a $25 million grant from PCORI, the Penn team will launch a randomized controlled trial to see if their game reduces the ...
Medical Dialogues

Dietary Supplements Safe and Promising Adjunctive Therapy for Psoriasis, Suggests Study

China: A network meta-analysis of 21 randomized controlled trials suggests that curcumin, vitamin D, and XP-828L are the most ...
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 ...
Medscape

High-THC Cannabis Tied to Marginally Less Pain, More Adverse Events

Cannabis with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol is associated with short-term improvement in pain vs placebo, but also ...
News Medical

Randomized clinical food trials: Best clinical practice, quality management & data processing

Thought LeadersAoife Hayes, Kevin O'Regan & Julie ScanlonClinical Trials Assitant, Operations Manager & Quality Assurance ManagerAtlantia Clinical Trials Food clinical trials may not be as familiar 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 ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Meta-Analysis Supports RSV Vaccine Efficacy and Safety in Older Adults

“Our findings indicate that the vaccine provided a significant enhanced level of protection against these infections in the ...