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Hello, and welcome to the show, where we look at the latest news and discoveries in the world of health.
This is Health Check from the BBC and I'm Claudia Hammond.
Today, the new drug for schizophrenia, which some have called a game changer.
Why discovering that an intervention doesn't work can be just as important as finding out that it does.
And I'm joined for for the whole show today by Matt Fox, who's professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University in the us.
And, Matt, I'm guessing, as someone who loves research, that you're interested in results that find nothing, am I right?
That's exactly right.
In fact, sometimes it's more useful to know that something doesn't work or isn't harmful than it is to know that it does work or it is harmful.
Well, we'll talk about that later on.
And I also love the study that you have for us at the end of the show, which is on a rather unusual treatment for dry eyes.