The essentials for interpreting research and statistics
A colleague brought to my attention a paper recently published in the journal Nature titled, Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time which apparently has generated some buzz. I have been puzzling over…
Abstract for this post: The article that is the subject of this post was not written by someone who said, “I wonder …” The paper for this review is “Viral Visualizations: How Coronavirus Skeptics Use…
A journal club I attend recently reviewed two articles published in Obstetrics & Gynecology (the “Green journal”) that reported rates of preterm delivery during “lockdowns” imposed last year due to the coronavirus epidemic. One of…
A pre-print published online July 1 by the International Journal of Infectious Diseases has invigorated the discussion around hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. This is an analysis of patients treated at Henry Ford Health…
Milk and Health is an article written by Walter Willett, MD, DrPH and David Ludwig, MD, PhD and published in the New England Journal of Medicine (February 2020). Drs. Willett and Ludwig hail from the…
My brother recently made me aware of a randomized trial testing whether famotidine (brand name: Pepcid) can prevent bad outcomes in patients with COVID-19. The idea for this came from an infectious disease physician, Michael…
Scroll down to the bottom of this post for the essentials. At last we come to a trial which was published within the last year (October 2019), in the American Journal of Perinatology. The present…
Scroll down to the bottom of this post for the essentials. Soon after the da Fonseca trial (Part 1) appeared in the literature, the New England Journal of Medicine published a large randomized clinical trial…
Spoiler alert: not as much as we should at this point. I was going to write a more straightforward post but I was at an ob/gyn journal club a couple of days ago where we…
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