Clinical trial offers strong evidence that nerve blocks can cut opioid use after cardiac surgery

A clinical trial led by St. Michael's Hospital researchers found that using nerve blocks, an anesthesia technique to numb ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Safety and Feasibility of Moderate-Intensity Home-Based Guided Exercise in Aortic Dissection Survivors in the United States: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND: Survivors of aortic dissection frequently restrict personal physical activity due to concerns about provoking ...
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Randomized Controlled Trial of a Virtually Delivered Exercise and Stress Management Program to Improve Physical Performance of Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Survivors

Oxaliplatin-Based Versus Alkylating Agent in Neuroendocrine Tumors According to the O6-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase Status: A Randomized Phase II Study (MGMT-NET) The median time post-HCT was ...
European Medical Journal

Reduced Infant Bathing Shows Lower Eczema Rates in Feasibility Trial

Reduced infant bathing may lower eczema rates in babies, a feasibility trial suggests. Learn more about early skin care findings.
Medical Xpress

Randomized controlled trials could be harming nonprofits, experts argue

In the 1940s, medical researchers began using randomized controlled trials to assess the efficacy of health interventions. In RCTs, researchers create randomly assigned treatment and control groups, ...

Five-agent AI team could speed clinical trial design using real-world patient records

An artificial intelligence system that operates like a collaborative team of medical experts could accelerate clinical trial ...
Heart

Feasibility of early double sequential defibrillation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the double-D randomised pilot trial

Background Double sequential defibrillation (DSD) is a promising treatment for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ...
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Randomized control trial to validate mitigation of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by limb-cooling apparatus in breast cancer patients receiving paclitaxel (CECILIA).

Phase III randomized placebo-controlled trial on repurposing olanzapine for prevention of radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (RINV): CTRI/2022/01/039723. PNQ ≥D 3 months after end of PTX 32.0% ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Ivermectin to Control Malaria — A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Malaria control and elimination is threatened by the spread of insecticide resistance and behavioral adaptation of vectors. Whether mass administration of ivermectin, a broad-spectrum antiparasitic ...