Joining forces with diverse groups of people can help produce high-quality systematic reviews more quickly and efficiently, according to a new report from THIS Institute. Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms – even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers […]
Little known about impact of widely prescribed diabetes drug, metformin, on cardiovascular disease
Metformin is the most-prescribed oral medication to lower blood glucose worldwide. But research findings about its association with cardiovascular disease, the most costly complication of type 2 diabetes, remain sparse and difficult to interpret. A new meta-analysis of research on the effect of metformin on cardiovascular outcomes in diabetes patients shows that metformin monotherapy appears […]