uniQure: Worst Case Scenario Becomes Reality

Qure’s AMT-130 faces FDA efficacy doubts after 12-month data. QURE's upside now hinges on political pressure. Read here for ...
BMJ Open

Speech-to-Speech Voice-Cloning Care (SVCC) for improving ICU-acquired anxiety for critically ill patients in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China: protocol of a randomised ...

Introduction Intensive care unit (ICU) visiting restrictions in hospitals, implemented due to infection control and other factors, limited contact between patients and family members, affecting ...
STAT

I tried to design a clinical trial for a supplement. 5 things got in the way

When Elise Felicione tried to design a clinical trial for a supplement, 5 things got in the way. It’s a lesson for the ...
Architectural Record

‘Neuro-Inclusive Community Design’ Learns from the Example of Sólheimar, Iceland

About an hour-and-a-half drive east of Reykjavík, Iceland, is the ecovillage of Sólheimar. Sesselja Sigmundsdóttir started the community in 1930 as a foster home for children with mental challenges. A ...
IPM

Randomized control trial shows drinking water promotion can prevent overweight and reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake in schoolchildren

A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reports findings from a randomized controlled trial—the gold standard study design in health research—showing that promoting drinking water ...
IEEE

Safety-Critical Randomized Event-Triggered Learning of Gaussian Process With Applications to Data-Driven Predictive Control

Abstract: Safety and data efficiency are important concerns in data-driven control, especially for nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics and subject to disturbances. In this work, we consider a ...
Frontiers

The efficacy and safety of low-intensity focused ultrasound pulses for prolonged disorders of consciousness: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (pDoC) have yielded limited success. Among them, only studies involving amantadine have provided Class ...
ahajournals.org

Abstract 4363704: YOSEMITE Rationale and Design: Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate Zodasiran Efficacy and Safety in Adolescents and Adults with ...

Methods: YOSEMITE is a phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Key inclusion criteria are genetically confirmed HoFH or a clinical diagnosis (total cholesterol >500 mg/dL OR ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

A Pragmatic Trial of Glucocorticoids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Adjunctive glucocorticoids may reduce mortality among patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in well-resourced settings. Whether these drugs are beneficial in low-resource settings ...
SciELO

Schizophrenia TreAtment with electRic Transcranial Stimulation (STARTS): design, rationale and objectives of a randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled trial

Introduction Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder. While some antipsychotic medications have demonstrated efficacy in treating positive symptoms, there is no widely recognized treatment for ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Ivermectin to Control Malaria — A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Malaria control and elimination is threatened by the spread of insecticide resistance and behavioral adaptation of vectors. Whether mass administration of ivermectin, a broad-spectrum antiparasitic ...
The Lancet

Bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, and clofazimine for rifampicin-resistant and fluoroquinolone-resistant tuberculosis (endTB-Q): an open-label, multicentre, stratified, non ...

aeTranslational Research on HIV and Endemic and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Montpellier Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, INSERM, Montpellier, France ...