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World Evidence-based Healthcare Day focuses on evidence and AI
20 October 2026
This year, World Evidence-based Healthcare Day is focusing on evidence, artificial intelligence (AI), and keeping people at the centre of health decision-making.
Insufficient evidence to back medical cannabis for insomnia
13 October 2026
A new Cochrane review finds that existing evidence is too uncertain to determine whether medical cannabis improves sleep or daytime functioning in people with insomnia.
Pharmaceutical company marketing negatively influences prescribing
9 October 2026
Doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed, a new Cochrane review finds.
New tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence
24 September 2026
A tool for assessing the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has been published today in The BMJ, giving researchers a structured way to identify problematic studies before they're included in systematic reviews.
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