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Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices.
Diabetes rates worldwide have been rising steadily since the early 1990s when these data were first estimated. This trend is only going up.
The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
Major reviews of medical evidence, known as Cochrane reviews, have come under fire. But is that fair?
We looked at more than 1,000 research trials and found clear evidence to back exercise as a way to improve depression, anxiety and psychological distress.
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.
The internet has been heralded as liberation technology and accused of undermining democracy. The available research shows it is a bit of both.
We researched how much difference opioids like codeine, oxycodone or morphine make to osteoarthritis pain. We found they helped about as much as paracetamol. Yet they are far more dangerous.
Good science doesn’t eliminate uncertainty: it explains it.
The limitations of traditional literature review approaches could be improved relatively easily with a few key procedures.
Systematic reviews are rarely applied to basic research. A new study shows how they could separate good data from bad, saving millions in research dollars and speeding life-saving treatments.
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.
Research involving pharmaceutical company input is notoriously compromised. While not all industry ties lead to biased research, and not all biases are a consequence of industry ties, many studies show…
We work at the Australasian Cochrane Centre and we dread being asked what we do for a living. This isn’t because we don’t like what we do, in fact we love it. It’s because when we explain that our job…
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Senior researcher at the Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, research professor in exercise, nutrition and activity, Adelaide University
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Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Sydney
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Director, Australian Living Evidence Collaboration; Professor (Research), School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Co-Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard University
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Doctoral researcher in computational social science, Hertie School
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Associate Professor in Education & International Development, University of Cambridge
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University of Johannesburg
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Fellow in Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Lead Research Scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
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Professor: Evidence-Informed Decision-Making, University of Johannesburg
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council