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A meta-analysis of 12 randomized trial publications found higher reported response rates and lower tinnitus and anxiety scores in acupuncture-based treatment groups, while biomarker results were inconclusive.
Frontiers in neurology5 min read
A meta-analysis found that circulating BDNF did not reliably distinguish children with cerebral palsy, non-syndromic intellectual disability or Down syndrome from controls, or track severity within affected groups.
Frontiers in neurology4 min read
The analysis found positive bile cultures in 77.3% of 5,147 sampled people, with Gram-negative organisms making up most isolates. But the studies varied sharply, and resistance data could not be combined into a reliable overall estimate.
Annals of Saudi medicine4 min read
A review of treatments for symptomatic vaginal laxity supports pelvic floor muscle training as first-line, while finding low-certainty evidence for radiofrequency devices and very low-certainty evidence from surgical cohorts.
International urogynecology journal3 min read
A reanalysis of public chickpea RNA-seq datasets found that HDBSCAN produced a more stress-specific drought signal than conventional tests and HN-score meta-analysis, but its performance depended on data richness.
Genes & genomics4 min read
A review of 3,479 kidney transplant recipients found possible advantages and a potential drawback associated with double-J stents compared with single-J stents.
Clinical transplantation and research5 min read
A methods paper presents NMADTA, an R package for combining uneven diagnostic-test evidence while making the assumptions behind missing data explicit.
Research Synthesis Methods3 min read
A benchmark of three large language models found a clear gap between basic study information and statistical results, with missing fields making up most analyzed errors.
Research Synthesis Methods3 min read
A methods analysis found that exact within-study variance calculations and BGLMM generally performed better than a standard approximate logit approach when diagnostic-test studies were sparse or small.
Research Synthesis Methods3 min read
A peer-reviewed systematic review found sparse reporting of treatment switching and no formal adjustment for it in the oncology meta-analyses examined.
Research Synthesis Methods4 min read