What Are Clinical Trials, and How Do They Work?

A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us.
MedPage Today on MSN

Hypnosis for Hot Flashes? Clinical Trial Says Yes

In a 2023 position statement, the Menopause Society recommended clinical hypnosis for vasomotor symptoms, and other randomized trials have shown that therapist-delivered hypnosis can reduce the ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Hypnosis therapy reduces menopause hot flashes by 60% in major clinical trial

A new clinical trial led by Baylor University’s Gary R. Elkins, Ph.D., professor of psychology and neuroscience, found that ...

Targeted vitamin D3 supplementation cuts risk of second heart attack in half, study finds

A tailored approach of vitamin D3 supplementation in patients who have suffered a heart attack significantly reduces their ...
ascopubs.org

The Promise study: A presurgical randomized clinical trial of CE/BZA vs placebo in postmenopausal women with ductal carcinoma in situ.

A phase 2 study of response-guided neoadjuvant sacituzumab govitecan and pembrolizumab (SG/P) in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer: Results from the NeoSTAR trial. This is an ...

First Patient Dosed in SYNERGY-101, a Global, Randomized Phase 2 Clinical Trial of STK-012 in First-Line, PD-L1 Negative Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Synthekine Inc., an engineered cytokine therapeutics company, today announced that the company has dosed the first patient in the SYNERGY-101 study. SYNERGY-101 is a global, randomized Phase 2 ...
ascopubs.org

Randomized Phase III Trial of Ramucirumab Beyond Progression Plus Irinotecan in Patients With Ramucirumab-Refractory Advanced Gastric Cancer: RINDBeRG Trial

Phase II Study (NO LIMIT, WJOG13320G) of First-Line Nivolumab Plus Low-Dose Ipilimumab for Microsatellite Instability–High Advanced Gastric or Esophagogastric Junction Cancer Patients age 20 years and ...