Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The key to better understanding the efficacy vs. effectiveness gap in drug therapies could lie in real-world ...

There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech announced interim results from their COVID vaccine trial. The vaccine, called BNT162b2, was reported to have an “efficacy rate ...

“Our findings indicate that the vaccine provided a significant enhanced level of protection against these infections in the ...

Social robots are efficacious and effective for children with autism, according to a study published online Dec. 24 in ...

The studies Sen. Ron Johnson’s office sent examined COVID vaccine effectiveness, not efficacy. Efficacy refers to how well a vaccine performs in a clinical trial, and each of the vaccines were highly ...

The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. These are not the same thing ...

Biological plausibility and randomized controlled efficacy trials justify the importance of clean and accessible water, improved sanitation, and hygiene in reducing morbidity and mortality rates.

The U.S. now has three safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines being shipped around the country and making it into people’s arms. All meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s threshold for protecting ...

Zania Stamataki is a viral immunologist at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a member of the British Society for Immunology and she cultures SARS-CoV-2 in category 3 containment labs to ...