No evidence for belief that nut allergens spread through aircraft ventilation systems, say experts

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is no evidence for the commonly held belief that nut allergens can be spread through aircraft ventilation systems, say allergy and aviation medicine specialists in

Appropriate statin prescriptions increase sixfold with automated referrals

The odds of prescribing the appropriate dose of statins — a medicine used to lower “bad” cholesterol levels — increased sixfold when automated referrals were made to pharmacy services, instead

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients

Some clinical trials aren’t designed to answer scientific questions. They’re designed to market drugs. In our recently published research, my team and I analyzed over 34,000 industry-funded trials and found