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Randomized controlled trials are clinical trials in which at least two interventions — the test treatment and a control treatment — are simultaneously evaluated in two or more arms of the trial, with ...

Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitor Combinations in First-Line Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Increasing Toxicity With Unclear Benefits In the article that accompanies this ...

Whole-blood transfusion has recently gained favor in the management of severe hemorrhage; however, data from large clinical trials evaluating its clinical effectiveness and safety are lacking. We ...

Glutamine is thought to have beneficial effects on the metabolic and stress response to severe injury. Clinical trials involving patients with burns and other critically ill patients have shown ...

Breakthrough Designation: Pivotal Trials Lack Randomization, Double-Blinding and Control Groups A review of all therapeutics receiving a breakthrough designation and approved from 2012 to 2017 found a ...

A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us. Credit...Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal is a health ...

When designing experiments, one is on the lookout for confounds. These are systematic, consistent differences between the experimental and the control conditions, differences that the experimenter is ...