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APS welcomes nine psychological researchers to the third cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.

Patients were stratified to cohort A (unspecified tumors) or cohort B (rare genomic alterations). The TARGET-CRM design permits cohort B patients to immediately enroll at one dose level below the ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week at FDA, your weekly source for updates – big and small – on FDA, drug, and medical device regulation and what we’re reading from around the web. This week, ...

The FDA's move to incorporate Bayesian statistical methods into clinical trials of drugs and biologics garnered special treatment in JAMA this week. JAMA published three perspectives -- two welcoming ...

Industry groups and drugmakers want the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explicitly clarify that Bayesian statistical methods can be used for products beyond those intended for children and ...

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Clinical trials for a new drug can take years to complete, and cost up to hundreds of millions of dollars. New draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aims to make that process ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the world’s best mimics, but when it comes to the cold, hard logic of updating beliefs based on new evidence, they are surprisingly stubborn. A team of researchers ...

The FDA’s new draft guidance on Bayesian methods in clinical trials has been hailed by some as a breakthrough that could speed drug development. But statisticians and researchers are divided on ...

In a new draft guidance issued on January 14, 2026, the FDA discussed the use of a modern statistical methodology in clinical trials designed to show the effectiveness of a new drug. The guidance, ...

A relatively simple statistical analysis method can more accurately predict the risk of landslides caused by heavy rain, according to a study coordinated by Brazilian researchers affiliated with the ...