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How researchers assess whether medications work

Yasmine Probst, University of Wollongong and Lauren Houston, University of Wollongong

Clinical trials can assess impact of a medication on a disease. The ideal design is ‘blind’ – when the researchers and participants do not know who is assigned to the different treatments.

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