
How Do We Know If a Drug Actually Works?
The term “effective” doesn’t have a precise definition—and that can be a problem
Matthew Nolan is a DPhil candidate in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Olaf Ansorge and Prof. Kevin Talbot. Matthew is working on selective vulnerability and somatic mosaicism in ALS/FTD, to understand why particular groups of neurons are more susceptible to disease pathology than others. Follow Matthew Nolan on Twitter @matthew__nolan
The term “effective” doesn’t have a precise definition—and that can be a problem
When discredited “outsider” theories inform government policy, we all pay a price
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