New GLP-1 RA ‘better than semaglutide’ for weight loss in Lancet study
A high dose of a new once-weekly injected GLP-1 receptor agonist has outdone semaglutide for weight loss in a phase III trial. Ecnoglutide, developed in…
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JAMA and NEJM back $1.5 billion AI ‘that cannot hallucinate’ to answer doctors’ medical questions
AI search engine OpenEvidence has struck deals with JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine to try to give fully cited answers to medical…
Meet the ‘data thug’ fighting bad medicine before it kills
Find bad medical evidence before it kills people. That is the motto of the newly launched Medical Evidence Project. It was set up by the…
Landmark gene editing creates a medicine made for just one patient
CRISPR technology has shown strong results treating a baby with a life-threatening liver cell mutation, with scientists saying it is the first documented use of…
Retracted studies ‘contaminate’ 157 clinical practice guidelines, BMJ study finds
Every retracted study may influence the results of three systematic reviews, each of which subsequently infects three clinical practice guidelines, researchers warn. Writing in The…
34 medical groups demand BMJ retract ‘irresponsible’ and ‘misleading’ guideline on chronic spine pain
More than 30 pain medicine societies are calling on The BMJ to retract a clinical practice guideline that advises against interventional procedures for chronic spine…
Mandatory research projects for registrars part of a $100 billion problem: Professor Paul GlasziouÂ
This article has been corrected (see footnote). Mandatory research projects in specialist training programs may waste registrars’ time and add to the global pit of…
The unsolved mysteries within Tony Abbott’s ‘sausage-machine medicine’
What are the big unknowns in general practice? No, not the reasons for the existence of the authority script line or whether obesity is a…
Doing peer review for no money: a noble tradition or ‘conspiracy’ to enrich journal publishers?
Researchers are fighting the centuries-old tradition of unpaid peer review, claiming that publishers are banking huge profits off the back of their free labour. Four…
Is failure to conduct reproducibility studies the latest clinical research crisis?
Pressure to publish new findings is a key reason reproducibility studies are being pushed to the wayside, researchers say. Despite being a crucial test of…
