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 ...
Medscape

High-Dose Buprenorphine for OUD With High Fentanyl Use?

Heavy fentanyl users may derive greater benefit from a higher dose of extended-release buprenorphine maintenance therapy, a randomized controlled trial suggests.
European Medical Journal

Curcumin Supplement Shows Blood Pressure Benefit in Diabetes

Curcumin supplementation modestly lowers systolic blood pressure in adults with prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
PsyPost on MSN

Psilocybin shows promise for rapid reduction of cancer-related depression

A new analysis of clinical trial data indicates that psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy provides immediate relief for anxiety ...
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 ...
JSTOR Daily

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) ...