Telesurgery matches local robotic urological surgery in first randomized trial

Telesurgery (operating on a patient remotely using a surgical robot via a secure telecommunication link) appears to be as ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

A Randomized Trial of Tenecteplase in Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion

Central retinal artery occlusion can result in permanent vision loss. Effective treatment is lacking. We conducted a phase 3, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, controlled trial involving ...

Natera Announces Completion of Enrollment in Randomized ACES-EMB Trial in Heart Transplantation

Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, today announced the completion of enrollment in ACES-EMB, the first randomized-controlled trial evaluating whether ...

A vaccine trial is called 'unethical' and a 'unique' opportunity. What's its fate?

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Randomized, Controlled Trial of the FGF21 Analogue Pegozafermin in NASH

Pegozafermin is a long-acting glycopegylated (pegylated with the use of site-specific glycosyltransferases) fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) analogue in development for the treatment of ...
ascopubs.org

Effect of an Invitation or the Effect of Participation: What Should Randomized Controlled Trials of Cancer Screening Examine?

Personalized Chemotherapy on the Basis of Tumor Marker Decline in Poor-Prognosis Germ-Cell Tumors: Updated Analysis of the GETUG-13 Phase III Trial Earlier detection of cancer offers an opportunity to ...
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 ...