Why you should be pleased we run trials on nudges, even if you don't like nudges (or trials)

Last year, we ran a randomized controlled trial working with frontline workers in the homelessness sector, which aimed to ...

Cannabis products with more THC can slightly reduce pain but cause more side effects

A new systematic evidence review finds that cannabis products that carry relatively high levels of the psychoactive compound ...
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Can Randomized Controlled Trials Be Remedied?

Daedalus, Vol. 154, No. 2, The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East & North Africa (Spring 2025), pp. 157-168 (12 pages) As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...
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Why Silicon Valley should demand clinical trials for its medical AI

Elemento is the director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Sternberg is the clinical director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. Khozin is ...
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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 ...