Some Studies That I Like to Quote
This short music video encourages health professionals to think about using evidence to help make decisions in partnership with patients. The main messages of the video are: Know the evidence Don’t...
View ArticleBen Goldacre talks about Bad Pharma on C-SPAN
In this 90-minute video lecture, Ben Goldacre talks about the problems with generating and disseminating evidence about the effectiveness of treatments. The talk was recorded at Seattle Town Hall, USA...
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Shared Decision-Making
This outstanding resource from the Health Foundation shows, with voice, text and video, how shared decision-making can be made to work in a typical consultation. Both patients and professionals will...
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Viva la Evidence!
Another brilliant song and video from James McCormack, featured on the Facebook page of our friends at the Association for Evidence-Based Medicine. This song puts across in under 5 minutes what we aim...
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ECRAN: Video introduction to clinical trials
This lay-friendly video was created by the European Communication on Research Awareness Needs (ECRAN) Project. The engaging 5-minute animation is available in 23 languages and is aimed at a lay...
View ArticleThe Gold Standard: What are randomised controlled trials and why are they...
This four minute video by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit explains what clinical trials are, what they aim to do and why randomisation is important. The video covers: The importance...
View ArticleGeneration R – involving children and young people in developing health research
In September 2013, the NIHR Medicines for Children Research Network’s ran a groundbreaking event: Generation R. Generation R was conceived, written and run by their Young Person’s Advisory Group. The...
View ArticleHealthTalkOnline: People’s experiences of clinical trials
HealthTalkOnline contains a wealth of information about people’s experiences of health problems, care and research. Badged as providing “information and support from other people, in the same...
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Tamiflu: securing access to medical research data
In November 2012 we wrote about Roche’s refusal to release clinical research data relevant to independent assessment of the effects of Tamiflu, and to the campaign to gain access to all of the data....
View ArticleRoutine use of unvalidated therapy is less defensible than careful research...
In this YouTube video, John Lantos explains a dangerously flawed ethical analysis which results in it being much harder to obtain consent for a clinical trial to test an untested treatment than it is...
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