Throughout its lifetime, tuberculosis (or TB) has gone by many names. The ancient Greeks called it 鈥減hthisis鈥. In the 1700s, it was 鈥渢he white plague鈥. And in the 1800s, it was 鈥渃onsumption鈥 鈥...
Against what does a vaccine need to be tested in the context of a clinical trial? The answer that pops immediately to mind is 鈥渁 placebo.鈥 In the medical sciences, things get compared to placebos...