Those of you with more than a passing interest in publication bias and other threats to the integrity of the research literature…

A US standing Presidential Commission, asked to assure “that current rules for research participants protect people from harm or unethical treatment, domestically…

This week I was delighted to listen in to a consensus conference of researchers, ethicists, editors and other interested parties, aiming to…

There’s a lot of nay-saying about peer review out there – it’s messy, inadequate, timeconsuming, boring, and nobody knows what it’s supposed…

UPDATE 1 AUGUST: The COMET website has now launched. Its database lists the outcomes standardisation efforts that are going on across clinical…

Research output is forever increasing — an average of seventy-five trials, and eleven systematic reviews per day, on the last count, which…

Clinical ethics have become far too preoccupied with the individual, autonomy and informed consent, argued Baroness Onora O’Neill at the Nuffield Council…

The PLoS Medicine editorial this month focuses on initiatives ensuring best practice in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews. This editorial…

It’s now well over five years since the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors announced a policy requiring that clinical trials considered…

The European Medicines Agency (EMA – the public body carrying out the centralised review and approval of new medicines across Europe) has…

A new report released yesterday by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics explores the impact, and ethical consequences, of personalised healthcare in a…

So peer review is broken, according to a recent piece in The Scientist: it’s slow, biased, arbitrary and overloads the community. But…