Alena is a professional writer, editor and manager with a lifelong passion for helping others live well. She is also a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) and a functional medicine certified health ...

Shanker Narayan has over two years of experience conducting research across multiple industries. Shanker is a former Research Analyst for Investopedia's financial product reviews team, formulating ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

We use the following factors in our health insurance ratings. Complaints made to state insurance departments: We used complaint data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The NAIC ...

RCTs are considered the best way to determine whether a treatment is effective, and the reason is simple: researchers can hold all other variables constant across groups and study what happens when ...

In the field of social science, particularly within psychology and counseling, several critical issues have emerged that undermine the scientific rigor of research and practice. One of the most ...