During the pandemic, doctors and patients have confronted the reality that few decisions in medicine are cut and dried. Instead, we've been forced to consider the concept of relative risk. Examples ...

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...

If rd is the relative risk of a disorder in the entire population, and $r_{d,i}$ is the relative risk of the disorder in i = 1,.. .m strata, then one may show readily ...

Several reports have described a relapse of certain autoimmune kidney diseases in patients after they've received COVID-19 vaccines, but it's unclear if this association is real or a coincidence. In a ...

Successful topline results from the CLEAR Outcomes Trial demonstrate that bempedoic acid, marketed as NILEMDO ® in Europe, reduces the risk of serious cardiovascular (CV) events in patients with, or ...

Introduction: As suggested by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) Applications Draft Guidance, we developed a statistical model based on public data to explore ...