Blog posts by Carl Heneghan

About Carl Heneghan

Carl is Professor of EBM & Director of CEBM at the University of Oxford. He is also a GP and tweets @carlheneghan. He has an active interest in discovering the truth behind health research findings and also blogs on Trust The Evidence at www.carlheneghan.com

EBM for editors

Evidence-Based Medicine workshop for editors Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan: July 2017 Download the pdf: Real world appraisal

EinSTein – Taking EBM to schools

Evidence IN School TEachINg, EinSTein is a project that supports introducing Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) as part of the wider science activities in

Fertility treatments lack evidence: BBC Panorama

Inside Britain’s Fertility Business BBC Panorama, 28th Nov 2016 Exclusive new research by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine shows a worrying

EBM Manifesto v2.0 talk

This talk was given at the introduction to Evidence-based Practice course at Rewley House on October 10th. The talk

Why we need Evidence for Aid

In humanitarian disasters you need people with acute trauma care skills to find and rescue those who can be

Journey to understanding Overdiagnosis

This talk was given at the 2016 Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference in Barcelona, Spain As the closing keynote this talk focuses on Carl

Evidence-Based Medicine for clinical years:

Evidence-Based Medicine for clinical years: Sep 13th 2016 Professor Carl Heneghan Download the pdf of the talk Go to the

How to assess health claims in the news

This talk was given by Professor Carl Heneghan at Continuing Education Open Day in Sep 2016 Download the talk: (Assessing

Teaching EBM Resources

Timeline of events since the publication of Cochrane Review on Neuraminidase Inhibitors

Compiled by Tom Jefferson, Peter Doshi, Mark Jones, Rokuro Hama and Carl Heneghan This time line charts significant events since

Better Decisions Require Research that Matters: Part 4

Poor quality evidence, lack of affordability and uninformed patients suggest an awful lot of research doesn’t actually matter. However, for

Better Decisions Require Better Informed Patients: Part 3

The first two articles in this series pointed out we need better and more affordable evidence. Yet, even if affordable

Better Decisions Require More Affordable Treatments: Part 2

Part 1 of this series pointed out we need better research to support better decisions. Market forces, though, may not

Better Decisions Require Better Evidence: Part 1

The campaign starts at EvidenceLive 2016 – with an open meeting to prioritise and explore the potential solutions to better

Why institutions should audit their trial publication record

Funding Bodies give money to institutions to undertake research to ultimately improve patient care. And to achieve this aim