Last year I wrote that a day may come, when we have evidence about masks that’s so strong, so convincing, only the…

This month, there are clinical trial reports for 3 next generation Covid vaccines – including 2 self-amplifying mRNA vaccines that have shown…

The authors got me thinking about the ways scientific uncertainty enables people to lead themselves, and others, astray. That wasn’t what they…

This month, most of the news is in mucosal vaccine development again. These vaccines aim to block Covid infection. An aerosol vaccine…

Mucosal vaccines go directly into the mucosal tissue where infection begins – for example, intranasally or via tablets. If they could induce…

This month, there was a thought-provoking 2-day workshop about preregistering studies, held at the Royal Society in London. The theme was “promises…

The race for next generation vaccines is steadily heating up now. And this month, we’ve passed a major milestone: The first data…

There’s a chronology of “psychology’s contributions to the belief in racial hierarchy and perpetuation of inequality for people of color in U.S.&rdquo…

Network meta-analysis (NMA) is an extension of meta-analysis, combining trial evidence for more than 2 treatments or other interventions. This type of…

A next generation vaccine has been authorized by a major drug regulator for the first time. It’s based on a next generation…

This is my fifth annual research roundup about journal peer review. And we’re only averaging about one randomized trial a year. This…

This is a very important trial. I had been looking forward to its results since it started a few years ago. It’s…