A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us.

Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) remain the gold standard in evaluating therapeutic interventions, ensuring that treatment effects are not confounded by systematic errors. Central to these trials is ...

Psychiatric drugs are reported to be about 50% more effective in clinical trials funded by the drug's manufacturer than when trials of the same drug are sponsored by other groups, new research shows.

Sequencing of Endocrine and Targeted Therapies in Hormone-Sensitive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative Advanced Breast Cancer A key but often overlooked question in oncology clinical ...