Still awaiting evidence on Chinese medicinal herbs for chronic hepatitis B |
Still awaiting evidence on efficacy of medicinal herbs for viral hepatitis C |
Still not clear whether people with a spinal cord injury should go straight to a specialist centre |
Still waiting for evidence about whether cranberries are useful for treating urinary tract infections |
Stimulant and non-stimulant drug therapy for people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and epilepsy |
Stimulant drugs for narcolepsy in adults |
Stimulant drugs for narcolepsy in adults |
Stimulant laxatives for constipation and soiling in children |
Stimulating the baby's scalp as a test of the baby's well-being in labour |
Stimulating the brain without surgery in the management of chronic pain in adults |
Stipends deadline for Cochrane Colloquium Edinburgh 2018 |
Stipends now open for Cochrane Colloquium Edinburgh 2018 |
Stiripentol as an add-on treatment for drug-resistant focal epilepsy (epilepsy affecting one side of the brain) |
Stitches that go under the skin for closing wounds after surgery |
Stitching versus no stitching of the tissue beneath the skin (subcutaneous tissue) for non-childbirth surgery |
Stool transplantation for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease |
Stool transplantation for treatment of repeated Clostridioides difficile infection |
Stool transplantation for treatment of repeated Clostridioides difficile infection |
Stopping antibiotic therapy early versus continuing until normal neutrophil count in people with cancer with fever and low neutrophil counts |
Stopping feeds for prevention of transfusion-associated necrotising enterocolitis in preterm infants |
Stopping long-acting beta2-agonists for children with asthma well controlled on combination therapy |
Stopping long-term antidepressants in people with depression or anxiety |
Stopping or continuing anti-dementia drugs in patients with dementia |
Stopping or continuing anti-dementia drugs in patients with dementia |
Stopping or continuing long-term antipsychotic drug use for behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia |
Stopping or reducing versus continuing long-term proton pump inhibitor use in adults |
Stoptober |
Straight after removing preterm babies from breathing machines, is it beneficial to deliver a steady flow of pressurised air through their nose to keep their airways open? |
Strategies designed to help healthcare professionals to recruit participants to research studies |
Strategies for detecting colon cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease |
Strategies for expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable populations |
Strategies for improving adherence to exercise in adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain |
Strategies for increasing the participation of women in community breast cancer screening |
Strategies for integrating family planning services with maternal, neonatal and child health, and nutrition services |
Strategies for managing sexual dysfunction caused by antidepressants |
Strategies for optimising antenatal corticosteroid administration for women with anticipated preterm birth |
Strategies for partner notification for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. |
Strategies for reducing exposure to indoor air pollution from household burning of solid fuels: effects on acute lower respiratory infections in children under the age of 15 years |
Strategies that might help to encourage people to continue to participate in a randomised trial (a type of scientifc study) |
Strategies that might help to encourage people to continue to participate in a randomised trial (a type of scientific study) |
Strategies to change organisational culture to improve healthcare performance |
Strategies to help adults with a breathing tube to communicate |
Strategies to help doctors change the way they prescribe antibiotics for patients with acute respiratory infections |
Strategies to help people with asthma take their steroid inhaler as prescribed |
Strategies to help people with asthma use their inhaler correctly |
Strategies to improve disease management and increase adherence to iron chelation therapy in people with thalassaemia |
Strategies to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews |
Strategies to increase adherence to iron chelation therapy in people with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia |
Strategies to increase the ownership and use of insecticide-treated bednets to prevent malaria |
Strategies to prevent kidney injury from antibiotics in people with cystic fibrosis |
Strategies to prevent oral disease in dependent older people |
Strategies to promote participation in physical activity for people with cystic fibrosis |
Strategies to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in primary care |
Strategies used for the withdrawal of humidified high flow nasal cannulae (HHFNC) in preterm infants |
Strategies used for the withdrawal of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) in preterm infants |
Strategy for a more evidence-informed world |
Strategy to 2020: Years of transformation |
Street lighting for preventing road traffic crashes and injuries |
Strength training or aerobic exercise training for muscle disease |
Stress-management interventions may help individual healthcare workers for at least a year |
Stretching to prevent or reduce muscle soreness after exercise |
Strict control compared with conventional glycaemic control for preventing surgical site infections in adults |
Stroke liaison workers for stroke patients and carers |
Strong evidence that advanced and remedial driver education does not reduce road traffic crashes or injuries |
Strontium ranelate for osteoarthritis |
Strontium ranelate for osteoporosis in women after menopause |
Structured telephone support and non-invasive telemonitoring in the management of people with heart failure |
Structured treatment interruptions (STI) in chronic suppressed HIV infection in adults |
Structured treatment interruptions (STI) in chronic unsuppressed HIV infection in adults |
Structured versus routine family planning counselling for contraception |
Students contributing to the impact of Cochrane |
Studies urgently needed to assess effects of Personal Assistance for children and teens with both physical and intellectual impairments |
Studies urgently needed to assess effects of Personal Assistance for children and teens with physical impairments |
Study shows Cochrane’s centralised search and screening processes are highly sensitive |
Sub-Tenon's anaesthesia versus topical anaesthesia for pain control and better operating conditions for cataract surgery |
Subcutaneous immunoglobulin for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy |
Subcutaneous omalizumab for people with asthma |
Subcutaneous or intramuscular methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis |
Subcutaneous rapid-acting insulin analogues for diabetic ketoacidosis |
Subcutaneous reservoir drainage versus ventriculoperitoneal shunt for the treatment of posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus in preterm infants |
Subcutaneous unfractionated heparin for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism |
Subcutaneous versus intravenous erythropoietin for long-term dialysis patients |
Subintimal angioplasty for lower limb arterial chronic total obstructions |
Sublingual immunotherapy (tablets, spray or drops under the tongue) to treat inflammation of the conjunctiva due to allergy |
Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) |
Sublingual immunotherapy for asthma |
Subpial transection surgery for epilepsy |
Subsidising artemisinin-based combination therapy in drug shops and pharmacies |
Substances used for expanding the womb cavity during hysteroscopy at outpatient sites |
Substituting or adding fluoroquinolones to established first-line antituberculous drug regimens gives no additional benefit or risks |
Substitution of nurses for physicians in the hospital setting for patient, process of care, and economic outcomes |
Subtotal versus total hysterectomy |
Successful 40-hour online training course hosted by Cochrane Sweden |
Sucrose analgesia for venepuncture in neonates |
Sucrose for analgesia (pain relief) in newborn infants undergoing heel lance |
Sucrose for analgesia (pain relief) in newborn infants undergoing painful procedures |
Suction versus no suction for chest drain management |
Sugammadex, a new medication for selective reversal of muscle weakness after surgery |
Suite of Cochrane Reviews on chronic rhinosinusitis |
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria |
Sulfasalazine for ankylosing spondylitis |
Sulfasalazine for treating rheumatoid arthritis |
Sulodexide for venous leg ulcers |
Sulphonylurea as sole therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus |
Sulpiride dose for schizophrenia |
Sulpiride for schizophrenia |
Sulpiride versus other antipsychotics for schizophrenia |
Sulpiride versus placebo for schizophrenia |
Sulthiame as add-on therapy for epilepsy |
Sulthiame monotherapy for epilepsy |
Sumatriptan (all routes of administration) for acute migraine attacks in adults |
Sumatriptan (intranasal route of administration) for acute migraine attacks in adults |
Sumatriptan (oral route of administration) for acute migraine attacks in adults |
Sumatriptan (rectal route of administration) for acute migraine attacks in adults |
Sumatriptan (subcutaneous route of administration) for acute migraine attacks in adults |
Sumatriptan plus naproxen for acute migraine attacks in adults |
Summary of findings tables for communicating key findings of systematic reviews |
Sun protection (including sunscreens) to prevent basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the skin |
Sunlight for the prevention and treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns |
Superficial heat or cold for low back pain |
Superoxide dismutase for preventing chronic lung disease in mechanically ventilated preterm infants |
Superoxide dismutase in preterm newborns at risk of lung disease |
Supervised exercise therapy vs home-based exercise therapy vs walking advice for patients with leg pain while walking (intermittent claudication) |
Supervised-dosing strategies versus take-home opioid substitution treatment for people dependent on opioid drugs |
Supervision to improve the quality of primary health care in low- and middle-income countries |
Supine versus non-supine sleep position in hospital for preventing morbidity and mortality in spontaneously breathing preterm infants |
Supplemental oxygen for the treatment of prethreshold retinopathy of prematurity |
Supplemental perioperative steroids for surgical patients with adrenal insufficiency |
Supplemental plant sterols and stanols for serum cholesterol and cardiovascular disease |
Supplementary feeding for children aged three months to five years: does it work to improve their health and well-being? |
Supplementary feeding for groups of people that are food insecure, vulnerable and malnourished |
Supplementary feeding with nutritional education for caregivers for promoting growth and development in young children in developing countries |
Supplementary vitamin E, selenium, cysteine and riboflavin for preventing kwashiorkor in preschool children in developing countries |
Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies |
Support for breastfeeding mothers |
Support for health professionals reduces unnecessary use of antibiotics in hospitals |
Support for mothers, fathers and families after perinatal death |
Support for parents and families after stillbirth and neonatal death |
Support from peers or lay leaders for adolescents with asthma |
Support surfaces for treating pressure ulcers |
Supported employment for adults with severe mental illness |
Supported housing for people with severe mental disorders |
Supporting resilience and mental well-being in frontline healthcare professionals during and after a pandemic |
Supportive care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer |
Supportive devices for preventing and treating subluxation of the shoulder after stroke |
Supportive interventions for improving dietary intake in nutritionally vulnerable groups |
Supportive periodontal therapy (SPT) to preserve teeth in people previously treated for periodontitis |
Supportive therapy for schizophrenia |
Suppression of the stress system in children who received synthetic stress hormones for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia |
Surfactant for bacterial pneumonia in term and late preterm infants |
Surfactant for meconium aspiration syndrome in term and late preterm infants |
Surfactant for newborn infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia |
Surfactant for pulmonary haemorrhage in neonates |
Surfactant may be effective for severe bronchiolitis in infants and children but additional research is needed |
Surfactant therapy via thin catheter in preterm infants with or at risk of respiratory distress syndrome |
Surgery and minimally invasive treatments for uterine fibroids |
Surgery and whole brain radiation therapy versus whole brain radiation therapy alone for single brain metastases |
Surgery compared to non-surgical treatment to relieve symptoms of bowel obstruction in ovarian cancer |
Surgery for cancer of the penis |
Surgery for cervical radiculomyelopathy |
Surgery for choanal atresia |
Surgery for chronically discharging ears with underlying eardrum perforations |
Surgery for complete rectal prolapse in adults |
Surgery for complicated diverticular disease: primary or secondary anastomosis after colonic resection |
Surgery for curvature of the spine in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
Surgery for deep venous insufficiency |
Surgery for degenerative lumbar spondylosis |
Surgery for Dupuytren's disease of the fingers |
Surgery for elbow pain (tennis elbow) |
Surgery for epilepsy |
Surgery for faecal incontinence in adults |
Surgery for hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement) |
Surgery for leg and back pain caused by damage to spinal discs |
Surgery for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer |
Surgery for long-term joint disease in people with haemophilia |
Surgery for Ménière's disease |
Surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus of unknown cause |
Surgery for obesity |
Surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea in adults |
Surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome |
Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder |
Surgery for osteoarthritis of the thumb |
Surgery for patella tendinopathy (jumper's knee) |
Surgery for primary supratentorial intracerebral haemorrhage |
Surgery for resolving symptoms associated with malignant bowel obstruction in advanced gynaecological and gastrointestinal cancers |
Surgery for rheumatoid arthritis in the shoulder |
Surgery for rotator cuff disease |
Surgery for small abdominal aortic aneurysms that do not cause symptoms |
Surgery for spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral haemorrhage |
Surgery for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents |
Surgery for the treatment of traumatic optic neuropathy |
Surgery for trigger finger |
Surgery for tympanic membrane retraction pockets |
Surgery for ulcerative colitis: Outcomes in low volume hospitals versus high volume hospitals |
Surgery for unstable trauma patients |
Surgery for upper tract transitional cell carcinoma |
Surgery for urinary incontinence due to presumed sphincter deficiency after prostate surgery |
Surgery for women with pelvic organ prolapse with or without continence procedures |
Surgery may improve survival rates for non-small cell lung cancer limited to the lung and surrounding affected glands |
Surgery on both eyes on the same day or on different days: which works better to treat cataract in both eyes? |
Surgery or chemoradiotherapy for stage IB2 cervical cancer |
Surgery or non-surgical treatments: which works better to treat people who have a dislocated knee cap? |
Surgery or radiological treatment for varicoceles in subfertile men |
Surgery or radiosurgery for solitary brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer |
Surgery or radiotherapy for early cervical cancer of the adenocarcinoma type |
Surgery plus adjuvant radiotherapy versus surgery alone for stage II endometrial cancer |
Surgery to improve vision in people with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) |
Surgery to remove cataracts after vitrectomy |
Surgery to remove tumour so that it is not visible with the naked eye prolongs survival in women with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer |
Surgery to the inferior turbinate (lining of the nose) in order to relieve nose block in allergic rhinitis after failed medical treatment |
Surgery versus antimicrobials for atypical mycobacterial lymphadenitis of the head and neck |
Surgery versus conservative treatment for acute ankle sprains in adults |
Surgery versus conservative treatment to repair knee anterior cruciate ligament tears (ruptures) in adults |
Surgery versus endoscopic therapies for early oesophageal cancer in Barrett's oesophagus |
Surgery versus IVF or expectant management for women with tubal infertility |
Surgery versus medical therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding |
Surgery versus medication for treating acid reflux in brain-damaged children having a feeding tube inserted |
Surgery versus non-surgical interventions (voice therapy, medical treatment) for the resolution of vocal cord nodules |
Surgery versus non-surgical management for unilateral ureteric-pelvic junction obstruction in newborns and infants less than two years of age |
Surgery versus non-surgical treatment for bronchiectasis |
Surgery versus observation for people with abdominal injury |
Surgery versus primary endocrine therapy for elderly women with operable primary breast cancer |
Surgery versus sclerotherapy for the treatment of varicose veins |
Surgery versus stereotactic radiotherapy for people with single or solitary brain metastasis |
Surgery versus surveillance for asymptomatic (mild) primary hyperparathyroidism in adults 50 years or older |
Surgery versus thrombolysis for the initial management of acute limb ischaemia |
Surgical (percutaneous pinning or plate fixation) versus non-surgical interventions for distal radius fractures in adults: an individual participant data review |
Surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation |
Surgical and medical interventions for abdominal aortic graft infections |
Surgical and non-surgical interventions used primarily for snoring |
Surgical and non-surgical methods of cleaning and removing dead tissue from sores on the feet of people with diabetes. |
Surgical and non-surgical procedures for management of pituitary tumours that secrete growth hormones in adults |
Surgical and radiological interventions for treating symptomatic extracranial cervical artery dissection |
Surgical approach to hysterectomy for benign gynaecological diseases |
Surgical approaches for dislocations of the neck bones |
Surgical approaches for inserting hemiarthroplasty of the hip |
Surgical approaches in total knee arthroplasty |
Surgical closure of the lining of the abdominal cavity versus no closure for reducing wound complications after operations unrelated to childbirth |
Surgical decompression for cerebral oedema in acute ischaemic stroke |
Surgical decompression for people with severe brain swelling after stroke |
Surgical excision margins for primary cutaneous melanoma |
Surgical excision methods for skin cancer involving the nail unit |
Surgical hand antisepsis to reduce surgical site infection |
Surgical interventions for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps |
Surgical interventions for entrapment and compression of the tibial and deep peroneal nerves including tarsal tunnel syndrome |
Surgical interventions for failed primary knee replacement |
Surgical interventions for nystagmus developing in the first year of life |
Surgical interventions for pharyngeal pouch |
Surgical interventions for post-traumatic anterior shoulder instability in adults |
Surgical interventions for pterygium |