Following the frequent suspicions regarding the safety of cholesterol-lowering drugs in the pre-statin era,1 statins have been a recurrent object of various concerns and alarming news. For example, ...

Statins do not cause the majority of the conditions that have been listed in their package leaflets, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, and erectile and sexual dysfunction, ...

Background In randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions that aim to prevent sports injuries, the intention-to-treat principle is a recommended analysis method and one emphasised in the ...

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) remains a significant health concern for the US Military Health System and a threat to warfighter readiness. Although most service members (SMs) recover following an ...

A cluster randomised trial (CRT) is a randomised controlled trial in which pre-existing groups, called clusters, of individuals are randomly allocated to treatment arms. For example, clusters may be ...

Fiona Fidler receives funding from the Australian Research Council and IARPA. Randomised controlled trials are the gold standard in medical research. Researchers divide participants into two groups ...

The video below shows how a randomised trial works. It is about 2 minutes long. Randomised trials have at least 2 different treatment groups. The people taking part are put into one of the groups at ...

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Research Associate at the Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC) and Visiting Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), ...