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 ...

IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Chao et al 1 report the results of a study that examined the impact of using four different risk/benefit measures when communicating survival ...

Encouraging the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) depends on the way that HIV risk is communicated to subgroups that are traditionally at the highest risk. A new study found that interest in PrEP ...

A multi-million-pound landmark “vaccine damage” case is set to take place in London’s High Court. The test case is being pursued by Jamie Scott who suffered a severe brain injury in April 2021 after ...

Although the historically different fields of quantitative genetics and epidemiology are converging to answer fundamental questions about genetic variation in risk underlying human diseases, the ...