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Carlos del Rio, an internationally known clinician and epidemiologist, has been named interim dean for Emory School of Medicine. He will begin his appointment on March 1.

A new study proposes a novel strategy to treat type 2 diabetes, putting individuals in command of their own medicine

Two researchers at the University of Guelph have been given the green light to grow mushrooms known to produce psilocybin

/PRNewswire/ -- The global prostate cancer therapeutics market size is expected to reach USD 21.5 billion by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View...

Drinking four cups of tea a day was linked to a 17% lower risk for developing type 2 diabetes in a study, but experts warn these data are observational and far from conclusive.

UW Medicine researchers are recruiting participants for a Phase 3 clinical trial of a drug to treat the monkeypox virus.

Liz will reflect on a career, both as a statistician and a teacher, which has taken her from London secondary school maths classrooms, through working on UK-based clinical trials, to collaborating on pragmatic trials of health interventions in varied and sometimes challenging settings.

Psychedelics arent just for experimenting teenagers and mystic shamans anymore, as controlled drugs that were once considered dangerous and of no ...

Can the compound found in magic mushrooms help treat depression without making people high?

In this talk, Professor Dunn will discuss the analysis of active-control trials with a time-to-event outcome. He will show that the standard metric used in such trials, the rate ratio or rate difference comparing experimental and control arms, may not be the most clinically relevant measure.  An alternative measure will be proposed, which requires specification of one of two unobserved parameters. The problem will be exemplified by studies from HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, TB preventative tr...