published several research papers that challenge current health care practices. One study found that a campaign to promote solar drinking water disinfection did not substantially decrease rates of childhood diarrhea [1]. Another found more than a doubled risk of hospitalization for bradycardia in older people taking cholinesterase inhibitors used to treat cognitive impairment [2]. A systematic review failed to find any randomized trials that support the internationally recom-mended retreatment regimen for tubercu-losis [3]. Finally, a study of one of the main international registries for clinical trials
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180), C. B. Fisher equates negative trial results with poorly conducted trials. There is no evi-denc...
For the 2016 end-of-the-year editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors asked 7 global health leaders to d...
It is well-known that selective outcome reporting and publication distort the information that is ma...
Conflicts of interest (COIs) do occur in healthcare research, yet their impact on research in the fi...
Alarge and growing literature details the many ways by which research and the subsequent published r...
Scientific research is not useful when its results are reported incompletely or incoherently. It is ...
Recently, a hallway conversation with an esteemed col-league caught my attention. Being pondered was...
C omparative effectiveness research (CER), once only thescientific interest of clinical and health s...
Abstract Editors from a number of medical journals lay out principles for journals con...
and definitive (as the media would some-times have us believe) is nonsense. Current conditions and i...
The scientific examination of how research is designed, carried out, communicated, and evalu-ated de...
When publishing observational re-search, what information should journals make available to the medi...
As an open-access journal committed to ameliorating the major challenges to human health worldwide, ...
In the past few years, the herbal mixture PC-SPES had be-come one of the best prospects for an alter...
anniversary of PLoS Medicine’s first call for papers with an editorial titled ‘‘A Medical Journal fo...
180), C. B. Fisher equates negative trial results with poorly conducted trials. There is no evi-denc...
For the 2016 end-of-the-year editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors asked 7 global health leaders to d...
It is well-known that selective outcome reporting and publication distort the information that is ma...
Conflicts of interest (COIs) do occur in healthcare research, yet their impact on research in the fi...