Explainers cover the reasoning that produces a grade rather than any particular intervention. They are written to be useful outside this journal: the same questions apply to any health claim you encounter, in any field, from any source.
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How to read a clinical trial
Six things to check before you believe a trial. Most of them are in the parts of the paper nobody reads.
Method - 02
Surrogate endpoints, and why they mislead
A marker moves. Nobody gets better. This is the most reliably repeated failure in preventative medicine, and the reasoning behind it is worth understanding once.
Method - 03
Biological age tests: what they measure
The output is a number of years. What produced it is a statistical model trained to predict something, and which something matters enormously.
Method - 04
Supplement regulation in the UK
A supplement on a British shelf has not been assessed for whether it works. Understanding what the system does check is the point of this explainer.
Method