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Evidence contamination: what it is and why it matters

Since its seminal movement initiated through the efforts of the visionary pioneers in the mid-twentieth century, ...
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Evidence-based practice education for healthcare professions: an expert view

Correspondence to Dr Elaine Lehane, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland; e.lehane{at}ucc.ie To highlight and advance clinical ...
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104 ‘Selling ADHD: how the pharmaceutical industry, schools, and parents helped medicalize childhood restlessness — and how we can unsell it’

Conclusions The ADHD epidemic is less about the discovery of a disease and more about the construction of one. Over the past two decades, we have witnessed the normalization of drugging children into ...
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Dear doctor, please know that you do not know until I have told you

Correspondence to Dr Arwen H. Pieterse, Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; a.h.pieterse{at}lumc.nl True patient involvement in treatment ...
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Evaluation of reported claims of sex-based differences in treatment effects across meta-analyses: a meta-research study (19 June, 2025) ...
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FDA approval of benzgalantamine exposes flaws in the 505(b)(2) pathway for innovations on existing drugs

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Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare

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External validity, generalisability, applicability and directness: a brief primer

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Opinion editorials: the science and art of combining evidence with opinion

3 Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Correspondence to: Gregory P Marchildon ...
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Balancing benefits and potential risks of vaccination: the precautionary principle and the law of unintended consequences

Vaccination is a life-saving endeavour, yet risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in science and medicine. Vaccination remains contentious in the public mind, and vaccine hesitancy is a serious public ...
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Review: stretching before or after exercise does not prevent muscle soreness or reduce risk of injury

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Stopping smoking in the weeks prior to surgery has no effect on the risk of postoperative complications

Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Nancy A Rigotti Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, ...