It’s been a slow month for reporting of results, but a big one for new trials and for potential improved vaccine boosters…
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Covid-19 A Mini-Surge of Clinical Trials and Advances for People with Immunosuppression (NextGen Covid Vax Update 18)
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Bias What a New Review Reveals About the Mask Effectiveness Debate
Last year I wrote that a day may come, when we have evidence about masks that’s so strong, so convincing, only the…
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Covid-19 Trial Results for Longer-Lasting Covid Vaccines and More (Next Generation Update 17)
This month, there are clinical trial reports for 3 next generation Covid vaccines – including 2 self-amplifying mRNA vaccines that have shown…
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Evidence Scientific Uncertainty Isn’t a Justification for Getting Things Seriously Wrong
The authors got me thinking about the ways scientific uncertainty enables people to lead themselves, and others, astray. That wasn’t what they…
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Covid-19 Mucosal Covid Vaccines Advancing, Plus a New Type of Vax in Development (Next Generation Update 16)
This month, most of the news is in mucosal vaccine development again. These vaccines aim to block Covid infection. An aerosol vaccine…
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Covid-19 A Huge Boost for Mucosal Covid Vax Development (Next Generation Update 15)
Mucosal vaccines go directly into the mucosal tissue where infection begins – for example, intranasally or via tablets. If they could induce…
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Bias Study Preregistration and Avoiding the Methods Fetish/Demonization Trap
This month, there was a thought-provoking 2-day workshop about preregistering studies, held at the Royal Society in London. The theme was “promises…
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Covid-19 Picking Up Steam: Next Generation Covid Vaccine Update 14
The race for next generation vaccines is steadily heating up now. And this month, we’ve passed a major milestone: The first data…
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Black History Month Black History Month: Early Mental Health Pioneers
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…
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Evidence 5 Tips For Understanding Network Meta-Analysis
Network meta-analysis (NMA) is an extension of meta-analysis, combining trial evidence for more than 2 treatments or other interventions. This type of…
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Covid-19 A Major First Next Generation Covid Vaccine: Could There Be More in 2024? (Update 13)
A next generation vaccine has been authorized by a major drug regulator for the first time. It’s based on a next generation…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2023
This is my fifth annual research roundup about journal peer review. And we’re only averaging about one randomized trial a year. This…