It is easy to overlook the fact that over 90% of medical treatments are not backed by strong evidence. People can find it ...

The past year was a turbulent one for Archie Cochrane, despite his having been dead for more than 30 years. A Scottish doctor and seminal figure in the history of medicine, Cochrane questioned the ...

Tapping into the latest scientific findings is not just for the academic elite. All you need is access to the Internet. Here’s a review of four Web resources. The heart of evidence-based medicine is ...

It’s a familiar pandemic story: In September 2020, Angela McLean and John Edmunds found themselves sitting in the same Zoom meeting, listening to a discussion they didn’t like. At some point during ...

The idea of evidence-based medicine has been around since the 1980s, and the term was officially coined in the 1990s. It arose from the realization that medicine was highly dependent upon the ...