Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his ...

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

Research studies in cardiovascular epidemiology assessing the relationship between a primary exposure and a health outcome must account for the presence of what are often called third variables, ...

Both regulators and sponsors need to use more agile trial designs to remove the heavy data collection burden on trial sites ...

Objectives To investigate differences between target and actual sample sizes, and what study characteristics were associated with sample sizes. Design Observational study. Setting The large trial ...

A new study examines the choices healthy research volunteers make when given the opportunity to learn their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia. The researchers found a large ...

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis examines the choices such healthy research volunteers make when given the opportunity to learn their risk of developing ...

This fact might explain why, for example, certain iterations of the LABS study found negligible differences in weight loss between sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. 3 The issue of ...

Reviewer #1 (Public review): Summary: Rigor in the design and application of scientific experiments is an ongoing concern in preclinical (animal) research. Because findings from these studies are ...

An essential feature of RCTs is the use of ‘blinding.’ Blinding refers to a process whereby those involved in the study (participants, researchers, investigators, etc.) do not have information that ...

Budget 2024 and Canada's Housing Plan announced that the National Research Council of Canada would launch consultations with provinces, territories, industry and fire safety experts to streamline the ...