Meta-epidemiology in clinical trials is a burgeoning field that scrutinises the methodological features and biases inherent in trial design. By aggregating data from numerous randomised controlled ...

In recent years, there has been substantial discussion of bias in science, and the conflicts that it can elicit. Bias can include the biases to which we are susceptible as individuals and the systemic ...

ACSH has written previously on this topic. Cooking with gas, Stove emissions and health Indoor air quality. Our recently published study exposes some of these falsehoods and hidden biases, creating a ...

Background: Epidemiologic studies that aim to estimate a causal effect of an exposure on a particular event of interest may be complicated by the existence of competing events that preclude the ...

The largest medical association in the country is slowly changing its stance on the BMI. The American Medical Association announced that using BMI to measure health risk has significant limitations.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Neonatal deaths (occurring within 28 days of birth) account for close to one-half of all deaths among children under age 5 worldwide. In most ...

Decades of research have established a significant link between physical activity and health, influencing agenda setting, policy making and community awareness.1–4 However, the field continues to ...

Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study out today in Epidemiology uses AI to solve the mystery, finding an ...