Observational research is core to drug development, helping researchers understand the natural history of diseases and the real-world impact of treatments on patients. Observational studies frequently ...

Observational studies are critical in evaluating the long-term safety and effectiveness of new therapies on patients’ lives. However, two major shifts are significantly changing the research ...

Nancy Dreyer, PhD, MPH, FISE, chief scientific advisor to Picnic Health, shares some of the ways that direct-to-patient approaches have improved observational research. Direct-to-patient approaches ...

Compared to experimental studies that require complex infrastructures such as laboratories or clinical trials at multiple centers, studies using a longitudinal cohort (an observational research method ...

(Boston)--Compared to experimental studies that require complex infrastructures such as laboratories or clinical trials at multiple centers, studies using a longitudinal cohort (an observational ...