We don’t know whether most medical treatments work, and we know even less about whether they cause harm – new study
Patients with ailments for which there are no effective medical treatments may be willing to try treatments that are not yet even supported by low-quality evidence. Image: Unsplash/Volodymyr Hryshchenko
Jeremy Howick
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
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