Taking vitamin D supplements does not reduce the risk of asthma attacks in children or adults, according to an updated Cochrane review. These findings are in contrast to a previous Cochrane review ...

Context: I coauthored a published review of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and published a review on the same topic in MedGenMed (now the ...

New evidence published in the Cochrane Library today provides further information on the benefits and harms of different human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and vaccine schedules in young women and ...

Neuropathic pain is nerve pain coming from malfunctions of or damage to the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves). It is different from pain messages that are carried along healthy ...

The Cochrane Library recently completed a review of “the comparative benefits, harms and tolerability of different smoking cessation pharmacotherapies and e-cigarettes, when used to help people stop ...

There is no clear evidence that cannabis-based medicines provide pain relief for chronic neuropathic pain, an updated review ...

Most women whose prenatal and childbirth care are led by a midwife have better outcomes compared with those whose care is led by a physician or shared among disciplines, according to a systematic ...

There remains no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection, state the authors of an updated Cochrane Review, which now contains 11 trials across 3409 ...

This up-date of a Cochrane Review evaluated the benefits and harms of SMT compared to (1) sham SMT/placebo intervention, (2) no treatment, and (3) other conservative interventions in people with ...

Objective To determine whether antioxidant supplements and antioxidant-enriched foods can prevent or reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness after exercise. Methods We searched the Cochrane Bone, Joint ...

A high-profile scientific paper questioning whether cutting salt reduces cardiovascular disease risk does not mean that industry-led sodium reduction initiatives are a waste of time, the American ...

We have noticed an error in the Cochrane review ‘Interventions for recurrent corneal erosions’ published in September 2012 (and in the previous version published ...