The report prepared by Hilda Bastian for the UK Cochrane Centre in 1994, about patient and public involvement and engagement in the Cochrane Collaboration.

Moderna has the first combined flu-Covid vaccine to cross the finish line. An overview of that race plus an update on nextgen Covid vaccine news.

Moderna has the first combined flu-Covid vaccine to cross the finish line. An overview of that race plus an update on nextgen Covid vaccine news.

I get this question a lot. It’s hard to answer in a few words. I know there has been at least one prediction that it could happen this year. I think the question is too complicated for an eas…

Back in 2000, when I was Chairperson of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, I chaired the development of a joint National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Forum national statement on consumer and community participation in research. This month I saw that it has recently been revised—the second revision since "our" version was published in 2002. Over 1,100 people attended consultation workshops for this process, and there were more than 200 written submissions.

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But I'm going to try and do it in as few as possible. #fml

It's wattle time here in country Victoria, and the bees are ecstatic! All that glorious yellow cheers up the middle of winter no end. It's such an optimistic color. I'm feeling optimistic, too, even though this month did not go as planned. That began, as disruptions so often do, with an unexpected email. This one was from PLOS, the home of my blog, …

Experimenting with colors for the Absolutely Maybe logo feels like another lifetime. It was 2013, and this blog was launching on the…

There are dozens of next generation Covid vaccines in clinical trials, with more to come. The Tracker keeps up-to-date with a monthly newsletter on developments in clinical trials and other research.

There are dozens of next generation Covid vaccines in clinical trials, with more to come. The Tracker keeps up-to-date with a monthly newsletter on developments in clinical trials and other research.

Before I get to the bumper crop of recent clinical trial news, there is news about this monthly update. This is the…

Before I get to the bumper crop of recent clinical trial news, there is news about this monthly update. This is the…

June was a relatively slow news month for next generation Covid vaccine development. So I took the opportunity to simplify the structure…

June was a relatively slow news month for next generation Covid vaccine development. So I took the opportunity to simplify the structure…

June was a relatively slow news month for next generation Covid vaccine development. So I took the opportunity to simplify the structure…

What makes an argument ‘correct,’ or, at least, reasonable? We can debate about each other’s claims endlessly, and there’s an interdisciplinary field…

OK, I admit this cartoon is not on point here. But I think it's one of my better cartoons, and that's my excuse for trotting it out! The point is a recent scoping review on active placebo controls, by David Laursen and colleagues. "Active placebo" sounds a bit like a contradiction in terms. That makes using them in trials one of those friction points capitalized in anti-vaccine evidence critiques: If it's active, so the argument goes, it's not a placebo, and the trial's results can be denigrated.

It was a big month for clinical trials of next generation Covid vaccines. An exciting phase 1/2 trial in Africa for an…

It was a big month for clinical trials of next generation Covid vaccines. An exciting phase 1/2 trial in Africa for an…

It was a big month for clinical trials of next generation Covid vaccines. An exciting phase 1/2 trial in Africa for an…

How a bedbound patient and a 73-page study changed the way doctors make decisions.

This event will discuss the ‘evidence revolution’ - the global movement that promotes the idea that scientific evidence should guide our decisions rather than unreliable opinions or beliefs – and the ...

There are several reasons to buy Helen Pearson’s excellent new book, Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works—whether you want to…

"Dog-assisted intervention trials." That phrase was definitely going to make me click! For a brief moment in that odd mind space you're in while scrolling, I wondered how on earth dogs could assist intervention trials (!!). But of course the article was about trials of dog-assisted services—either professionally-delivered therapy with dogs trained to help improve mental health, or activities with untrained dogs.