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  • Come chat to us, get your questions answered, and learn more about Cochrane!
    The Cochrane Community Exhibition Stand has traditionally been a hub of activity and a gathering point for both members, staff, and for those new to Cochrane. Come chat to us, get your questions answered, and learn more about Cochrane! Our annual event, the Cochrane Colloquium, brings together members of the community, staff, and newcomers to...
    30 August 2019
  • A new special series of blogs and other resources from Cochrane UK
    Throughout August, the Cochrane UK team are running a new special series; ‘Maternity Matters’.
    Maternity Matters is series of blogs and other resources, including graphics and podcasts, sharing some of the latest evidence on women's and babies' health, from pregnancy through to the early days after birth. The series focuses on NHS priorities...
    29 August 2019
  • Podcast: The Skeptics' Guide to EM talks about Cochrane and Acute and Emergency Care Network
    The Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM)  is a podcast with over 40,000 subscribers and is translated into four other languages. It is  open access with the goal of providing the most valid, reliable, and unbiased global source of currently clinically-relevant patient-centered emergency medicine information.Recently SGEM talked to Dr....
    28 August 2019
  • https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD012573.pub3/full
    In this article, lead author Dr Gareth Hollands from the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, summarizes some of the key messages from 'Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption'  published by Cochrane Public Health. Would you be less likely to...
    27 August 2019
  • Cochrane urges the FDA to make CSRs publicly available
    This post was originally posted on the Cochrane Methods websiteIn January 2018, the FDA announced a pilot aimed at enhancing the transparency of the Agency's drug approval process and decisions. As part of the pilot, sponsors of up to nine drug applications to the FDA were asked, on a voluntary basis, if they would approve the public release of...
    22 August 2019
  • The ‘living guidelines approach’ uses a combination of ongoing literature surveillance to inform prioritization, rapid appraisal of the potential impacts of new evidence on recommendations and accelerated updating of high-priority Cochrane systematic reviews for high-priority questions.
     An article highlighting an innovative approach developed by WHO and Cochrane to ensure that global recommendations on maternal and perinatal health are up to date was recently published in BMJ Global Health. The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group has a long-standing collaboration with WHO on the development and updating of Cochrane reviews...
    19 August 2019
  •  Watch films that introduce the teams, what has happened so far, and the ambitions for what is to come
    Cochrane has created eight new Networks of Cochrane Review Groups responsible for the efficient and timely production of high-quality systematic reviews that address the research questions that are most important to decision makers.These films introduce the teams, what has happened so far, and the ambitions for what is to come.In these short films...
    14 August 2019
  • Chris Del Mar
    As many across the Cochrane community may be aware, Professor Chris Del Mar, Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections and long-time Cochrane contributor, was involved in a serious surfing accident earlier this year. During one of his regular early morning surfing sessions on Australia’s Gold Coast, Chris sustained a very high...
    13 August 2019
  • Meet Soodabeh - Dentist and Clinical Lecturer
    Cochrane is made up of 11,000 members and over 67,000 supporters come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere.Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part in...
    12 August 2019
  • Podcast: Use of computer or robotic technology to assist surgeons in performing gynaecological surgery
    Recent developments allow surgeons to do operations remotely by guiding mechanical arms, rather than needing to be next to the patient. This is called robot-assisted surgery and the Cochrane Review of its use in gynaecological surgery was updated in October 2018. Theresa Lawrie from the Cochrane Gynaecology, Neuro-oncology and Orphan Cancer Group...
    9 August 2019
  • A series of papers highlighting innovative work carried out by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group and the World Health Organization
    A series of papers highlighting innovative work carried out by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group and the World Health Organization on using reviews of qualitative research in guideline development processes has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems.Cochrane is a non-governmental organization in official...
    8 August 2019
  • Podcast: Assisted reproductive technology: an overview of Cochrane Reviews
    Cochrane Overviews bring together the findings from multiple reviews and one of the largest, first published in September 2013, was updated and republished in May 2018. Cindy Farquhar, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand describes this enormous volume of evidence for assisted reproduction...
    7 August 2019
  • Financial conflicts of interest in systematic reviews
    The Cochrane Review 'Financial conflicts of interest in systematic reviews: associations with results, conclusions, and methodological quality' has recently published. We talked to author Camilla Hansen to learn what the latest evidence says and why it is important.

    Can you please tell us about this Cochrane Review?
    "Systematic...
    7 August 2019
  • Meet Audrey and Eve; Network Support Fellows
    Cochrane is made up of 11,000 members and over 67,000 supporters come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere.Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part in...
    5 August 2019
  • Podcast: Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies
    The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group has produced more than 600 reviews and one of its first from 1995 looked at the effects of providing support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of having a low birthweight baby. The review underwent another update in April 2019 and we asked a new member of the research team, Christine East from...
    1 August 2019
  • Cochrane talks about how we are trying to  keep pace with fast-moving research field
    A recent article in Nature, 'Out of date before it's published', looked at how we are keeping pace with fast-moving research fields. It featured the work of Cochrane to increase the speed and efficiency of Cochrane systematic review production.Julian Elliott co-leader of Project Transform, discussed the need for the latest health evidence to be...
    1 August 2019
  • Breastfeeding: evidence on effective support and enablers for mothers and their babie
    The 1-7 August is World Breastfeeding Week and the full month of August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month for many countries - the perfect time to highlight the Cochrane Library Special Collection, which brings together Cochrane Reviews assessing evidence on interventions to support breastfeeding. In 2017 the Cochrane Library published a...
    1 August 2019
  • Cochrane's 30 under 30: Selena Ryan-Vig
    Cochrane is made up of 11,000 members and over 67,000 supporters come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere.Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part in...
    30 Juli 2019
  • Introducing the Cochrane Abdomen and Endocrine Network.
    Cochrane has created eight new Networks of Cochrane Review Groups responsible for the efficient and timely production of high-quality systematic reviews that address the research questions that are most important to decision makers.In this short film we focus on the Cochrane Abdomen and Endocrine Network. This film introduces the team, what has...
    29 Juli 2019
  • Podcast: Psychosocial support for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
    The rising incidence of cancer and successes in its treatment mean that an ever increasing number of people are living with cancer. This is leading to the involvement of more and more informal caregivers in their care. In a new Cochrane Review from June 2019, Charlene Treanor from the Centre for Public Health in Queen’s University Belfast in...
    26 Juli 2019

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