YouTube video by MRC IEU at University of Bristol

Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

We used the September 2013 age-based rollout of the live-attenuated shingles vaccine in England as a natural experiment to estimate the effect of vaccine eligibility on shingles and dementia diagnoses...

Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, responds to the “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” proposed by the US Office of Management and Budget.

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

Ground breaking intervention or senseless hype?

YouTube video by Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science

Oxford research division site

Mendelian randomization (MR) is an increasingly common study design in infectious diseases (ID). It holds promise for identifying causes and consequences of infections where conventional epidemiology ...

Exploring the role of randomization across decision theory, clinical trials, politics, evolutionary biology and genetics

Our editorial responsibility for the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE) started at the dawn of the current millennium, and we marked the occasion

This is a retraction of: Xinyu Fang, Jie Zhang, Zixing Zhang, Dongqing Ye. Association between Vitamin D and mortality risk in gout patients, Journal of Pu

In this Perspective, George Davey Smith and colleagues outline how and why gene-environment equivalence, the fundamental principle of Mendelian Randomization (MR), must be properly applied and critica...