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A new review shows bed rest is unlikely to help your back pain. The treatments that work can depend on how long your pain has lasted.
They’re heavily promoted. Your optometrist may even prescribe them. But when we looked at the evidence, this is what we found.
Hot water, cold water, rubbing with sand? What our new review says works best to treat jellyfish stings.
Major reviews of medical evidence, known as Cochrane reviews, have come under fire. But is that fair?
An updated Cochrane Review suggests face masks don’t reduce the spread of COVID in the community. But there are several reasons why this conclusion is misleading.
Around 95% of treatments do not have high-quality evidence to support their benefits
In many urban poor areas such as slums, programmes by governments and NGOs are established to help families and mitigate malnutrition. But are these effective?
The final word on omega 3 supplements and heart health.
Antimicrobial stewardship is proving effective, but we’re not fully across what is happening.
South Africa has become the first country on the continent to purchase a national licence to the Cochrane library – giving everyone access to evidence-based information about health care.
Two new Cochrane reviews reveal that some interventions to tackle overweight and obesity in children do work, but only in the short term.
Asthmatics given vitamin D had fewer severe attacks that needed treatment with oral medication.
A Cochrane review found school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs were moderately effective in arming children with knowledge and skills that may decrease the likelihood that they will be harmed.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor, University of Tasmania
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Research associate and Cochrane systematic review methodologist, University of Nottingham
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Associate Director, Scottish Improvement Science Collaborating Centre, University of Dundee
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Research fellow, University of Dundee
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Senior Research Fellow, Primary Health Care/Cochrane Airways Australia Coordinator, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Social Work, Monash University
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Reader in Public Health and Obesity, Teesside University
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Reader in Research Synthesis, Nutrition and Hydration, University of East Anglia
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Research Fellow, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Principal Research Fellow, University of Warwick
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Consultant Paediatrician, UNSW