Lisa A Bero

Oct 22, 2024 | issues.org | Lisa A Bero |Monya Baker |Kimberly Quach

Check the end of any recent study, and there will be a list of study funders and disclosures about competing interests. It’s important to know about potential biases in research, but this kind of transparency was not always the norm. Understanding bias in research and helping policymakers use the most reliable evidence to guide their decisions is a science in itself.

Apr 18, 2024 | goskagit.com | Lisa A Bero

Apr 18, 2024 | ftimes.com | Lisa A Bero

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Apr 18, 2024 | sfgate.com | Lisa A Bero

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) If you are suffering with chronic pain, diabetes, heart problems or any other condition, you want to be confident that your doctor will offer you an effective treatment. You certainly don’t want to waste time or money on something that won’t work, or take something that could do you harm. The best source of information to guide treatment is medical research.

Dec 18, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Adrian C Traeger |Lisa A Bero

Corporate Influences on Science and Health—the Case of Spinal Cord Stimulation Corporations have been developing tactics to undermine independent science for decades.1 In the 1950s, on learning of the damaging effects of tobacco on health, the tobacco industry used campaigns of criticism to defend their products and the substantial revenue they were generating.