Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Systematic reviews, which involve pooling data from multiple studies ...

Introduction With the rapid ageing of the global population, the number of persons with dementia (PwDs) is increasing, placing substantial psychological and physical burdens on family caregivers.

Systematic reviews are fundamental to the appraisal and synthesis of evidence in health and social care. They utilise pre‐defined protocols to gather, evaluate and integrate findings from diverse ...

A comprehensive new systematic review published in The Journal of Nutrition provides the latest evidence that large-scale food fortification is a highly cost-effective intervention for reducing global ...

Systematic reviews and clinical trials form the cornerstone of contemporary health research, providing robust, evidence‐based insights that guide clinical practice and policy. Systematic reviews ...

Evidence synthesis across randomized comparisons showed limited magnitude and duration of opioid analgesia for most acute pain presentations, challenging assumptions of broad short-term efficacy.

Despite rapid advances in large language models, this study shows that human expertise remains critical for producing rigorous systematic reviews, with AI best suited as a supervised support tool ...

Objective To synthesise data on the associations between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and health in children and adolescents, evaluate the certainty of evidence and identify knowledge gaps. Design ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will produce a report to update the standards for systematic reviews as defined in the 2011 report Finding What ...

A new systematic review of 19 studies reveals that abortion stigma remains a persistent issue in high-income countries. Researchers found that stigmatizing views are most common among men, political ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba conducted a systematic review of published case reports and case series examining carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning associated with waterpipe tobacco use. The ...