A major new centre, led by UCL researchers, will seek to improve how clinical trials are run, cutting years off the time it takes to bring life-saving treatments to patients.

This project collects images created using generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) that have appeared in academic journals.If you run across examples of gen AI images in journals or books - whethe...

Ideally, guideline developers and HTA authors base intervention decisions on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). However, relying solely on RCTs is uncommon, especially for public health intervention...

A decision threshold (DT) reflects the point at which a decision or judgment changes, leading to the selection of an action or a commitment for one of several alternatives. Thresholds have always play...

Alcohol harm is a serious and growing concern in the UK, impacting people’s health and wellbeing, the NHS, social services, criminal justice, and our economy. These impacts are felt most by people on ...

1. Evidence synthesists are ultimately responsible for their evidence synthesis, including the decision to use artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, and to ensure adherence to legal and ethical...

This trailer is for a film called Unmasking Influence. Unmasking influence is about how commercial actors influence policy and public health. Many of the major…

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The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials (RCTs). These are RCTs where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings....

Objectives Interventions for obesity that require individual behaviour change, such as behavioural weight management interventions, may contribute to health inequalities. We explored if there was evid...