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| Featured review: Colchicine for Covid |
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| Featured review: Conservative interventions for urinary incontinence in women: an overview of Cochrane Reviews |
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| Featured review: Do blood thinners prevent people who are hospitalised with COVID‐19 from developing blood clots? |
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| Featured review: Does giving money to people, in low‐ and middle‐income countries, without conditions attached lead to better health and other life improvements? |
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| Featured review: Does using low-sodium salt substitutes instead of regular salt reduce blood pressure and heart disease risks, and is it safe? |
| Featured Review: Drugs for correcting the basic defect in the most common cystic fibrosis-causing gene variant |
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| Featured Review: Incentives for smoking cessation |
| Featured Review: Incentives for smoking cessation |
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| Featured Review: Induction of labour at or beyond 37 weeks’ gestation |
| Featured Review: Influenza vaccines for preventing acute otitis media in infants and children |
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| Featured review: Is exercise an effective therapy to treat long‐lasting low back pain? |
| Featured review: Is the combination nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir effective for treating or preventing COVID‐19? |
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| Featured Review: Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants |
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| Featured review: Low-dose misoprostol given by mouth for induction of labour |
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| Featured Review: Medicines to treat people with vascular dementia and other vascular cognitive impairments |
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| Featured Review: Multifactorial and multiple component interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community |
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| Featured review: Music therapy for autistic people |
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| Featured Review: Nasal decongestants in monotherapy for the common cold |
| Featured Review: Nicotine replacement therapy versus control for smoking cessation |
| Featured Review: Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section |
| Featured review: Non‐pharmacological interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised non‐ICU patients |
| Featured Review: Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care |
| Featured Review: Nutritional interventions for preventing stunting in children living in urban slums |
| Featured Review: Oral H1 antihistamines as ‘add-on’ therapy to topical treatment for eczema |
| Featured Review: Oral paracetamol for treatment of acute episodic tension-type headache in adults |
| Featured Review: Oxygen therapy in adult intensive care patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome |
| Featured Review: Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults |
| Featured Review: Patient-mediated interventions to improve professional practice |
| Featured Review: Paying for performance to improve the delivery of healthcare services in low- and middle-income countries |
| Featured Review: Pelvic floor muscle training versus no treatment, or inactive control treatments, for urinary incontinence in women |
| Featured Review: Pharmacological treatments for fatigue associated with palliative care |
| Featured Review: Physical activity interventions for people with congenital heart disease |
| Featured Review: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses |
| Featured Review: Piperonyl butoxide (PBO) combined with pyrethroids in insecticide‐treated nets to prevent malaria in Africa |
| Featured Review: Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for the treatment of ovarian cancer |
| Featured review: Poly ADP‐Ribose Polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer |
| Featured Review: Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction |
| Featured Review: Probiotics to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus |
| Featured Review: Progestogen for preventing miscarriage |
| Featured Review: Promoting patient utilisation of cardiac rehabilitation |
| Featured Review: Psychological interventions for psychosis in adolescents |
| Featured Review: Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare professionals |
| Featured Review: Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults |
| Featured Review: Psychological therapies for women who experience intimate partner violence |
| Featured review: Psychological treatments for depression and anxiety in dementia and mild cognitive impairment |
| Featured review: Psychosocial interventions for adults who self‐harm |
| Featured Review: Psychosocial interventions to support pregnant women to stop smoking |
| Featured Review: Rapid, point‐of‐care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection |
| Featured review: Reduced breast density following endocrine therapy as an indicator of breast cancer risk |
| Featured review: Reducing nausea and vomiting in women having a caesarean birth with regional anaesthesia |
| Featured Review: Reducing uncertainties in choosing first-line treatment in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma |
| Featured Review: Reminiscence Therapy for Dementia |
| Featured Review: Routine scale and polish for periodontal health in adults |
| Featured Review: Saline irrigation for allergic rhinitis |
| Featured Review: School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents |
| Featured Review: Standardized formal resuscitation training programmes for reducing mortality and morbidity in newborn infants |
| Featured Review: Stopping smoking is linked to improved mental health |
| Featured Review: Sun protection to prevent basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the skin |
| Featured review: Support for breastfeeding mothers |
| Featured review: Surgery on both eyes on the same day or on different days: which works better to treat cataract in both eyes? |
| Featured review: Survivor, family and professional experiences of interventions for sexual abuse and violence |
| Featured Review: Taxation of the fat content of foods for reducing their consumption and preventing obesity or other adverse health outcomes |
| Featured Review: Telephone interventions for managing symptoms in adults with cancer |
| Featured review: The effects of water compared with other solutions for wound cleansing |
| Featured Review: The impact of medications with anticholinergic effects on future problems with memory and thinking |
| Featured Review: Three updated Cochrane Reviews assessing the effectiveness of influenza vaccines |
| Featured Review: Topical benzoyl peroxide for acne |
| Featured Review: Topical NSAIDs for acute musculoskeletal pain in adults |
| Featured Review: Tourniquet in knee replacement surgery |
| Featured review: Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women |
| Featured Review: Treating depression after stroke |
| Featured Review: Treating school children with drugs to kill soil - transmitted worms |
| Featured Review: Treatments for hand eczema |
| Featured Review: Using mobile technologies to promote communication and management of care between healthcare professionals |
| Featured Review: Uterotonic agents for preventing postpartum haemorrhage |
| Featured review: Uterotonic agents for preventing postpartum haemorrhage |
| Featured Review: Vaccines for preventing herpes zoster in older adults |
| Featured Review: Vertebroplasty for treating spinal fractures due to osteoporosis |
| Featured Review: Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke |
| Featured Review: Virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation |
| Featured review: What are healthcare stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of factors affecting the implementation of critical care telemedicine? |
| Featured review: What are the benefits and risks of a single injection of ketorolac (an anti‐inflammation medicine) for relieving short‐term pain after surgery in adults |
| Featured review: What are the benefits and risks of beds, mattresses and overlays for preventing and treating pressure ulcers? |
| Featured Review: What are the benefits and risks of health literacy interventions for migrants? |
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| Featured review: What are the effects of antifibrinolytic treatment in people with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage? |
| Featured review: What are the effects of fluoxetine treatment in overweight or obese adults? |
| Featured Review: What factors influence the provision of care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries? |
| Featured review: What is the accuracy of different combinations of ultrasound imaging and blood tests to diagnose ovarian cancer in women before and after the menopause? |
| Featured Review: What types of interventions benefit people experiencing homelessness to quit smoking? |
| Featured review: Which medicines, taken by mouth or injected, work best to treat a skin condition called plaque psoriasis? |
| Featured review: Which remotely‐delivered psychological approaches help people with long‐term chronic pain to improve symptoms? |
| Featured review: Which treatments are best for symptoms in COVID‐19 patients at the end of life? |
| Featured Review: Workplace interventions for reducing time spent sitting at work |
| Featured review: Xpert Ultra for diagnosing tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in children |
| Featured Review: Xylitol sugar supplement for preventing middle ear infection in children |
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| Featured Reviews: Behavioural activation therapy for depression |
| Febuxostat for treating chronic gout |
| Fecal microbiota transplantation for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome |
| Fecal transplantation for recurrent or refractory Clostridium difficile diarrhea |
| Feed thickener for infants up to six months of age with gastro-oesophageal reflux |
| Feeding by tube into the stomach or intestine versus feeding by mouth for children with cerebral palsy |
| Feeding interventions for growth and development in infants with cleft lip, cleft palate or cleft lip and palate |
| Feeding strategies to prevent neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in term or late preterm babies born to mothers with confirmed COVID-19 |
| Feeding support in hospitalised adults at risk of undernourishment |
| Felbamate used with other antiepileptic drugs for drug-resistant focal epilepsy |
| Female condom for preventing HIV and sexually transmitted infections |
| Femoral nerve blocks for acute postoperative pain after knee replacement surgery |
| Fencing which completely encloses all sides of a swimming pool and isolates it from the home is effective in preventing drowning of young children |
| Fenoldopam for preventing and treating acute kidney injury |
| Fentanyl for chronic pain |
| Fentanyl for neuropathic pain in adults |
| Fermented milk for hypertension |
| Fertility and early pregnancy outcomes after treatment for cervical pre-cancer (cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia) |
| Fertility-sparing treatment for atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer |
| Fetal assessment methods after preterm prelabour rupture of membranes for improving outcomes for mothers and babies |
| Fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) for fetal monitoring during labour |
| Fetal fibronectin testing for reducing the risk of preterm birth |
| Fetal manipulation for facilitating tests of fetal wellbeing |
| Fetal measurements for guiding the medical management of women with diabetes in pregnancy to improve outcomes for mother and baby |
| Fetal movement counting for assessment of fetal wellbeing |
| Fetal pulse oximetry for fetal assessment in labour |
| Fetal vibroacoustic stimulation for facilitation of tests of the wellbeing of the unborn baby |
| Feverfew for preventing migraine |
| Fewer-than-four ports versus four ports for laparoscopic cholecystectomy |
| Fibarates for type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Fiber and bulking agents for the treatment of chronic constipation |
| Fibrates for patients without established cardiovascular disease |
| Fibrates for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke |
| Fibreoptic phototherapy for neonatal jaundice |
| Fibrin glue for pilonidal sinus disease |
| Fibrin glue instillation under skin flaps to prevent seroma-related morbidity following breast and axillary surgery |
| Fibrin glue versus sutures for conjunctival autografting in primary pterygium surgery |
| Fibrin sealants have fewer proven benefits than some other technologies designed to reduce the risks associated with transfusions of donated blood |
| Fibrinogen depleting agents may help to remove blood clots in acute ischaemic stroke |
| Fibrinolytic therapy for intraventricular hemorrhage in adults |
| FibroTest, transient elastography method, and combined FibroTest and transient elastography method for diagnosis of severe hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis in adults with chronic hepatitis C |
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| Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries |
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| Financial incentives for decreasing and preventing obesity in workers |
