Let's Not "Relax" Evidence Standards when Recommending Risky Preventive Therapeutic
Agents Let's Not "Relax" Evidence Standards when Recommending Risky Preventive …

The new Canadian drinking guidelines offer important steps forward in considering the
extent of life lost to alcohol and recognizing that risks from alcohol increase continuously …

Text changes inn the alcohol recommendation of the 1995 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
attracted considerable media attention. This article provides an overview of the science and …

The author comments on three issues raised by Dr. Kenneth G. Marshall in his series on the
benefits and harms of preventive therapies, which begins in this issue on page 1493. First …

Confounding by indication poses a significant threat to the validity of nonexperimental
studies assessing effectiveness and safety of medical interventions. While no different from …

In the Nov. 8, 2011, issue of CMAJ, Latino-Martel and colleagues1 suggested that new
evidence connecting alcohol consumption and increased risk of cancer means that drinking …

For busy health care professionals, keeping up with the literature in their specific field is
becoming increasingly difficult. A quick PubMed search reveals that approximately 800 …

English SUMMARY: The debate on the possible health benefits of alcohol use has been
gaining in intensity. Apart from lay and usually ill-founded assertions, it is not uncommon to …

In Defense of Pharmacoepidemiology — Embracing the Yin and Yang of Drug Research | New
England Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine …

Comments on an article by Kevin Shield et al.(see record 2024-08565-001). Shield draws
upon the recent redevelopment of the Canadian Low Risk Drinking Guidelines to formulate …