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  • Cochrane’s Neurological Sciences Field launches 2019 Summer School for young physicians and trainees interested in cerebrovascular diseases
     There are still a few places available - sign-up  here NOW! Deadline 30 July Together with support from the Umbria Region Health Authority, Perugia, Italy, Cochrane’s Neurological Sciences Field is organizing a four-day Summer School 10-13 September 2019. The residential course targeted to young physicians and trainees interested in...
    10 Juni 2019
  • Introducing the Cochrane Mental Health and Neuroscience Network.
    In this short film we introduce the Cochrane Mental Health and Neuroscience 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.This film introduces the team,...
    10 Juni 2019
  • Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea
    Rotavirus infection is a common cause of diarrhoea and a variety of vaccines are used to try to prevent it. The evidence for these is examined in the fourth update of a Cochrane Review, published in March 2019 and we asked Hanna Bergman one of the authors based in the Cochrane Response team in London UK to tell us about the problem and the latest...
    6 Juni 2019
  • Cochrane's 30 under 30: Anneliese Arno
    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 Juni 2019
  • Cochrane January-March 2019: highlights from Q1
    'Cochrane exists so that healthcare decisions get better.’ That is the first sentence of our Strategy to 2020 that aims to put Cochrane evidence at the heart of health decision-making all over the world. Here’s a look back at some key highlights of our work in the first quarter of 2019, from January to March. Cochrane began preparations for its...
    5 Juni 2019
  • Cochrane at Work
    Cochrane does not make clinical recommendations, instead it provides unbiased and high-quality health evidence so that health decisions, policies, and clinical guidelines can be informed by the best available evidence. ‘Cochrane in the workplace’ series collects stories about how Cochrane evidence is being used in different workplace settings - by...
    5 Juni 2019
  • Launch of Cochrane US Network
    Cochrane launches a new network of US institutions to promote evidence-based health care and public health  The Cochrane US Network made up of some of the country’s leading institutions in the research and practice of evidence-based medicine, and they join Cochrane’s 70 existing geographic Groups around the world. The Cochrane US Network will...
    4 Juni 2019
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, is an autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body. About half the people with it develop lupus nephritis. In the June 2018 update of their Cochrane Review, David Tunnicliffe from the Centre for Kidney Research in the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney’s School of Public...
    31 Mai 2019
  • Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group assess the evidence on how to help after pregnancy loss, care during pregnancies following a stillbirth
    The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group has produced several hundred reviews on the effects of interventions for women who are pregnant, giving birth or with a newborn baby. They also assess the evidence on how to help after pregnancy loss, and one of their new reviews from December 2018 looks at care during pregnancies following a stillbirth...
    30 Mai 2019
  • Editor in Chief of the Cochrane Library
     This Friday (31st May, 2019) will mark my final day as your Editor in Chief. I want to express my gratitude to you all for your forbearance, support, challenge and friendship over these past 10 years. Believe me when I say that having the privilege of serving you all has been the highlight of my working life. Life has never been easy, but I have...
    30 Mai 2019
  • Cochrane Sweden hosts one week 'Introduction to Cochrane Methodology' course
    Cochrane Sweden recently hosted a 1-week course on Cochrane Methodology at the Lund University. The course was mainly aimed at PhD students from the Faculty of Medicine but was open for everyone. This 40-hour course  used Cochrane Interactive Learning modules, lectures, and discussion to cover the following topics: Introduction to conducting...
    29 Mai 2019
  • It features evidence from reviews of the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive group in 3 of the guideline’s  evidence profiles - Physical activity interventions, Management of diabetes and Management of dyslipidaemia.
    The World Health Organization's latest guideline on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia has been published. This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on how to reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia.It features evidence from reviews of the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement group in 3 of the...
    29 Mai 2019
  • Deadline extended for expressions of interest to host Global Evidence Summit, 2021
    Now extended to 30 June 2019The Global Evidence Summit (GES) is a quadrennial event that brings together some of the world’s leading organizations in evidence-based practice in a shared mission to provide a platform to discuss critical issues across different sectors, including health, education, social justice, the environment and climate change...
    29 Mai 2019
  • Cochrane's 30 under 30: Stephen Surace
    Cochrane is made up of 13,000 members and over 50,000 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...
    28 Mai 2019
  • The guideline features evidence from 13 Cochrane Reviews of 8 different Cochrane groups.
      The Belgian Red Cross specializes in the development of evidence-based first aid guidelines and materials. After the update of its basic first aid manual for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016 (freely downloadable following registration), a brand new manual with advanced first aid techniques, contextualized to Sub-Saharan Africa, is currently being...
    27 Mai 2019
  • Join the Rapid, Rapid, Rapid study and help answer an important methodological question!
    The Cochrane Rapid Review Methods Group is leading an important piece of methodological research and need your help. Does it make a difference whether abstracts are screened by one or two people to find relevant studies for a systematic review? How many relevant studies will be missed when abstracts are reviewed by only one person? Can the...
    27 Mai 2019
  • Inaugural Editor in Chief of Cochrane Clinical Answers announced
    We are delighted to announce that Dr Christopher Bunt, MD, FAAFP has been appointed as the inaugural Editor in Chief of Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs), reporting to Karla Soares-Weiser, Editor in Chief of Cochrane. Chris has been a practicing Family Medicine physician in the US since 2004 and has recently added Medical Acupuncture to his...
    24 Mai 2019
  • The First Cochrane Hong Kong Symposium
    Cochrane Hong Kong is celebrated it's first Symposium on 23-24 May, with workshops following on 27-28 May. The theme of the Cochrane Hong Kong Symposium was ‘Paving the Way for and Achieving Excellence in Evidence-informed Health Care in the Belt and Road Regions’. The symposium aimed to provide an international multidisciplinary platform for...
    23 Mai 2019
  • Cochrane seeks publishing partner from January 2021
    Cochrane, producer of the Cochrane Library, the world’s pre-eminent collection of high quality evidence to inform healthcare decisions, today announces the launch of a competitive tender to establish its future publishing partner from 2021 for the next decade. Cochrane wants to identify a publishing partner that will increase the accessibility,...
    22 Mai 2019
  • Dementia in the spotlight: evidence and experience
    Dementia Awareness Week, 20-27 May 2019, is a week on which organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about dementia. Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement remit includes producing systematic reviews of both global cognitive impairment and focal cognitive impairments occurring in the context of brain...
    21 Mai 2019

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