Gifts and payments from pharmaceutical companies to doctors increase inappropriate prescribing and the number of prescriptions doctors write, and probably increase the costs. Pharmaceutical company ...
I was very impressed with how this topic was presented. I was anxious it would be over my head as I have been out of academia for 15+ years but I felt like it was digestable. It also has given me ...
Stopping sedation each day may reduce the time people spend on a ventilator, probably reduces the number who die, and probably reduces the time people spend in intensive care and hospital, compared to ...
Compared with an inactive (dummy) treatment, aciclovir and penciclovir creams probably speed up cold sore healing by about one day without increasing the risk of unwanted events. Compared with each ...
The current Cochrane review from 2014 concludes “There is no good evidence for or against the effectiveness of OTC medicines in acute cough. This should be taken into account when considering ...
- Methylphenidate might reduce hyperactivity and impulsivity and might help children to concentrate. Methylphenidate might also help to improve general behaviour, but does not seem to affect quality ...
An updated Cochrane review has found that calcium supplementation has no effect on pre-eclampsia, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of calcium in preventing hypertensive disorders in ...
Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they ...
Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI, and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence have published a joint position statement on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in evidence ...
Compared to placebo (a sham medication), tirzepatide likely helps adults with obesity lose weight in the medium term (up to 2 years), and this weight reduction is likely to be maintained over the long ...
This session, part of the Statistical analysis in systematic reviews series, explored two types of outcome data - dichotomous and continuous data - commonly found in studies and will discuss how to ...
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