Cannabis products with more THC can slightly reduce pain but cause more side effects

A new systematic evidence review finds that cannabis products that carry relatively high levels of the psychoactive compound ...
Medscape

Should BP Be Lowered in Isolated Diastolic Hypertension?

Lowering systolic blood pressure is linked to a similar reduction in the risk for major cardiovascular events in people with ...
JSTOR Daily

Can Randomized Controlled Trials Be Remedied?

Daedalus, Vol. 154, No. 2, The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East & North Africa (Spring 2025), pp. 157-168 (12 pages) As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...
STAT

Keeping pregnant participants out of medical research is more dangerous than including them

“Well, we don’t have as much evidence as we would like on steroid use during pregnancy,” the obstetrician warned my co-author, Natalia Emanuel, as she wrote a prescription for inhaled corticosteroids ...
Las Vegas Sun

Fighting dementia could be as easy as the shingles vaccine

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia.
STAT

Why Silicon Valley should demand clinical trials for its medical AI

Elemento is the director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Sternberg is the clinical director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. Khozin is ...