About Cochrane

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. [Learn more]

Systematic reviews are our main product. They are published electronically in successive issues of The Cochrane Library. [Learn more]

Find background material about Cochrane, watch an introductory video, download leaflets and the logo and view our chronology.

View our publication schedules, calendar of events, glossary of Cochrane and research terms and find out how to cite Cochrane evidence.

Access to Cochrane evidence

Find out about free access for journalists and other ways to access Cochrane evidence. Learn more about Cochrane in Spanish and other Cochrane databases and publications.

Contact

To talk to someone about The Cochrane Collaboration and its work, please contact your nearest Cochrane Centre.

To arrange an interview with a review author or to receive news alerts, please contact Jennifer Beal at Wiley, Tel.: +44 (0)1243 770633, e-mail: jbeal@wiley.com.

Press releases

For each issue of The Cochrane Library, a news alert and press releases are produced by our publisher Wiley to highlight to journalists some of the key healthcare conclusions and their implications for practice.

Download Wiley's The Cochrane Library Media User Guide [PDF].

News

Read news from Cochrane, subscribe to our RSS Newsfeed, and download the offical Cochrane News and other newsletters.

Browse our 'Cochrane in the News' archive for interesting stories about Cochrane evidence and follow Cochrane on Twitter.

Cochrane Multimedia

Listen to Podcasts from The Cochrane Library or watch multimedia material from Cochrane.

Evidence-based Medicine

Find out more about evidence-based medicine and health care (EbM) and access our comprehensive webliography of EbM resources [coming soon].

Interesting links

Informed Health Online offers a collection of articles for journalists about medical journalism.

Health: best treatments, a consumer health series published by The Guardian in partnership with the British Medical Journal.

(the) health informaticist, a blog about knowledge translation, Web 2.0 and evidence-based medicine.

Gems from Cochrane and Cochrane Dailies from the UK National Library of Health (users outside the UK need to register; it's free).

TrustTheEvidence.net, a blog providing up-to-date information on medical evidence and impact on practice.

Cochrane Reviews are also publicised by The Health Behavior News Service (HBNS), part of the Center for Advancing Health based in Washington, USA. HBNS disseminates news stories centered on the latest findings from systematic reviews and studies in peer-reviewed journals.