| Vaccines for preventing tick-borne encephalitis |
| Vaccines for preventing typhoid fever |
| Vaccines for prevention of HIV infection |
| Vaccines for the prevention of infections in adults with haematological malignancies |
| Vaccines for women to prevent tetanus in newborn babies |
| Vaccines to prevent influenza in healthy adults |
| Vacuum extraction versus forceps for assisted vaginal delivery |
| Vaginal cervical support device to prevent delivery of a single baby before 37 weeks |
| Vaginal chlorhexidine during labour for preventing maternal and neonatal infections (excluding group B streptococcal and HIV) |
| Vaginal cleansing with antiseptic solution before cesarean delivery to reduce infections after surgery |
| Vaginal dilator therapy for women receiving pelvic radiotherapy |
| Vaginal dilators and intercourse are useful for alleviating post-radiotherapy vaginal problems, but more evidence is required to assess oestrogens and benzydamine |
| Vaginal disinfection for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection |
| Vaginal energy-based devices for vulvovaginal dryness |
| Vaginal inserts for prevention of sexually transmitted infections |
| Vaginal lasers for treating stress urinary incontinence in women |
| Vaginal misoprostol is effective in inducing labour but more research is needed on safety |
| Vaginal prostaglandin (PGE2 and PGF2a) for induction of labour at term |
| Vaginal weights for training the pelvic floor muscles to treat urinary incontinence in women |
| Vagus nerve stimulation for focal seizures |
| Vagus nerve stimulation to improve post-stroke motor function and activity |
| Valacyclovir compared with acyclovir for the treatment of herpes zoster ophthalmicus in people with an otherwise normal immune system |
| Valerian for anxiety disorders |
| Valproate add-on therapy for drug-resistant focal epilepsy |
| Valproate for acute mania |
| Valproate for keeping people with bipolar disorder well, after mood episodes |
| Valproate for preventing migraine attacks in adults |
| Valproate for schizophrenia |
| Valproate preparations for the treatment of agitated behaviour in people with dementia |
| Valproic acid and sodium valproate for neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia |
| Vancomycin for prophylaxis against sepsis in preterm neonates |
| Vapocoolants (cold spray) for pain treatment during intravenous cannulation |
| Varicella and influenza vaccines may reduce morbidity in patients with blood cancers |
| Varying the timing or the volume of intravenous fluids given to people with uncontrolled bleeding due to injury |
| Vascular access devices for prolonged intravenous therapy regimens in people diagnosed with cancer |
| Vascular access specialist teams for insertion of and prevention of vascular access device failure |
| Vascular access type for patients on chronic haemodialysis |
| Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors for the treatment of metastatic and recurrent cervical cancer |
| Vasectomy methods for birth control in men |
| Vasoactive drugs for acute stroke |
| Vasoactive drugs for adults with cirrhosis and large ascites treated with paracentesis |
| Vasodilator drugs to reduce the symptoms of primary Raynaud's phenomenon |
| Vasodilators and vasoactive substances for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss |
| Vasodilators for treating intrauterine growth restriction |
| Vasopressin and its analogues for the treatment of refractory hypotension in neonates |
| Vasopressors for hypotensive shock |
| Vector and reservoir control for preventing leishmaniasis |
| Vedolizumab for induction and maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease |
| Vedolizumab for induction and maintenance of remission in Crohn’s disease |
| Vedolizumab for the treatment of active and inactive ulcerative colitis |
| Vegan diet for adults with overweight or obesity |
| Vegan diets for the prevention of cardiovascular disease |
| Velnacrine is not beneficial for people with Alzheimer's disease |
| Vena caval filters for the prevention of pulmonary embolism |
| Vena caval filters for the prevention of pulmonary embolism in people at high risk of, or with established venous thromboembolism |
| Venepuncture versus heel lance for blood sampling in term neonates |
| Venlafaxine for neuropathic pain in adults |
| Venlafaxine versus other anti-depressive agents for depression |
| Venous arterialization for the salvage of critically ischemic lower limbs |
| Venous blood clot prevention in people undergoing lower limb amputation |
| Venous cutdown versus the Seldinger technique for placement of totally implantable venous access ports |
| Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for acute spinal cord injury patients |
| Ventilation tubes (grommets) for otitis media with effusion (OME or 'glue ear') in children |
| Ventriculo-peritoneal valves for hydrocephalus |
| Vertebroplasty for treating spinal fractures due to osteoporosis |
| Very early discharge versus early discharge versus non-early discharge in children with cancer and fever during neutropenia |
| Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke |
| Very tight versus tight control for diabetes in pregnancy |
| Vesicular monoamine transporter inhibitors versus placebo for antipsychotic-induced tardive dyskinesia |
| Vestibular rehabilitation to improve dizziness, balance and mobility in patients with unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction |
| Vestibular stimulation for promoting development and preventing morbidity in preterm infants |
| Vibroacoustic stimulation for fetal assessment in labour in the presence of a nonreassuring fetal heart rate trace |
| Video calls for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people |
| Video feedback for parental sensitivity and child attachment |
| Video games for schizophrenia |
| Video-assisted chest surgery may be more effective than chest tube drainage for the lung complication pleural empyema |
| Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus open thoracotomy conventional lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer |
| Video: 'The importance of creditable information and the infodemic' on The Eco Well |
| Video: Cochrane Abdomen and Endocrine Network |
| Video: Cochrane Acute and Emergency Care Network |
| Video: Cochrane Cancer |
| Video: Cochrane Children and Families Network |
| Video: Cochrane Circulation and Breathing |
| Video: Cochrane Mental Health and Neuroscience Network |
| Video: Cochrane Musculoskeletal, Oral, Skin and Sensory Network |
| Video: Cochrane Public Health and Health Systems |
| VIDEO: Cochrane's 2024 International Women’s Day Event |
| VIDEO: International Women's Day Panel on diversity in health evidence synthesis |
| VIDEO: What are systematic reviews? |
| Vigabatrin add-on for drug-resistant focal epilepsy |
| Vigabatrin versus carbamazepine monotherapy for epilepsy |
| Vilanterol and fluticasone furoate for chronic asthma in adults and children |
| Vilazodone for major depressive disorder in adults |
| Vinpocetine for acute ischaemic stroke |
| Virtual #CochraneSantiago - Meet our content creators! |
| Virtual #CochraneSantiago Meet-up in Malaysia! |
| Virtual Methods Symposium: Advanced Methods and Innovative Technologies for Evidence Synthesis |
| Virtual patient simulations for health professional education |
| Virtual reality environments for health professional education |
| Virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation |
| Virtual reality needs to be explored to show its effects for treatment of schizophrenia |
| Virtual reality simulators for training in gastrointestinal endoscopy |
| Virtual reality technology as a useful tool for rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease |
| Virtual reality technology for pain management in advanced cancer |
| Virtual reality training for improving the skills needed for performing surgery of the ear, nose or throat |
| Virtual reality training for supplementing standard training in surgical trainees with limited prior laparoscopic experience |
| Viscosupplementation for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee |
| Vision screening of older drivers to prevent road traffic injuries and deaths |
| Vision screening programmes for amblyopia (lazy eye) |
| Visit the Cochrane Community Exhibition Stand at the Colloquium |
| Visual Abstract: Ivabradine as adjuvant treatment for chronic heart failure |
| Visual or visual-tactile examination for the diagnosis of dental caries |
| Visual tubal patency tests for tubal occlusion and hydrosalpinx |
| Visualizing an infodemic and approaches to countering misinformation: Lifeology SciComms Challenge |
| Vitamin A creams and lotions for nappy (diaper) rash |
| Vitamin A for measles in children |
| Vitamin A for non-measles pneumonia in children |
| Vitamin A for preventing acute lower respiratory tract infections in children up to seven years of age |
| Vitamin A for preventing acute lower respiratory tract infections in children up to seven years of age |
| Vitamin A for preventing blindness in children with measles |
| Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy |
| Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for maternal and newborn health outcomes |
| Vitamin A supplementation for infants one to six months of age for preventing death and illnesses |
| Vitamin A supplementation for postpartum women |
| Vitamin A supplementation for preventing disease and death in children aged six months to five years |
| Vitamin A supplementation for prevention of mortality and morbidity in moderate and late preterm infants |
| Vitamin A supplementation to prevent deaths and short- and long-term illness in very low birth weight infants |
| Vitamin A supplements for reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection |
| Vitamin and mineral supplementation for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in mid life |
| Vitamin and mineral supplementation for preventing cognitive deterioration in cognitively healthy people in mid and late life |
| Vitamin and mineral supplementation for preventing dementia or delaying cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment |
| Vitamin and mineral supplements for women during pregnancy |
| Vitamin B and its derivatives for diabetic kidney disease |
| Vitamin B for treating diabetic peripheral neuropathy |
| Vitamin B for treating disorders of the peripheral nerves |
| Vitamin B supplementation for sickle cell disease |
| Vitamin B12 supplementation for growth, development, and cognition in children |
| Vitamin B12 supplementation for women during pregnancy |
| Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) supplementation in pregnancy or labour for maternal and neonatal outcomes |
| Vitamin B6 and magnesium in combination for children with autism spectrum disorder |
| Vitamin C and superoxide dismutase (SOD) for diabetic retinopathy |
| Vitamin C for asthma and exercise-induced breathlessness |
| Vitamin C for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease (hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy) |
| Vitamin C for preventing and treating pneumonia |
| Vitamin C for preventing and treating tetanus |
| Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold |
| Vitamin C for preventing complex regional pain syndrome (type I) after wrist fractures in adults |
| Vitamin C for treating atrial fibrillation |
| Vitamin C supplementation for asthma |
| Vitamin C supplementation for prevention and treatment of pneumonia |
| Vitamin C supplementation in pregnancy |
| Vitamin C supplementation to prevent cardiovascular disease |
| Vitamin D and related vitamin D compounds for preventing fractures resulting from osteoporosis in older people |
| Vitamin D compounds for people with chronic kidney disease not requiring dialysis |
| Vitamin D compounds for people with chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis |
| Vitamin D for improving bone density in children |
| Vitamin D for preventing acute respiratory infections in children up to five years of age |
| Vitamin D for preventing cardiovascular disease |
| Vitamin D for the management of multiple sclerosis |
| Vitamin D for the treatment of chronic painful conditions in adults |
| Vitamin D for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease |
| Vitamin D supplementation for chronic liver diseases |
| Vitamin D supplementation for overweight or obese adults |
| Vitamin D supplementation for preventing infections in children under five |
| Vitamin D supplementation for preventing recurrent stroke and vascular events in patients with stroke or transient ischaemic attack |
| Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of cancer in adults |
| Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of mortality in adults |
| Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of vitamin D deficiency in preterm and low birth weight infants |
| Vitamin D supplementation for sickle cell disease |
| Vitamin D supplementation for term breastfed infants to prevent vitamin D deficiency and improve bone health |
| Vitamin D supplementation in infancy for improving bone density |
| Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy |
| Vitamin D supplementation in pregnant or breastfeeding women or young children for preventing asthma |
| Vitamin D to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic inflammatory lung disease) |
| Vitamin D with or without calcium for treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women |
| Vitamin D, calcium or a combination of vitamin D and calcium for the treatment of nutritional rickets in children |
| Vitamin E for antipsychotic-induced tardive dyskinesia |
| Vitamin E for intermittent claudication |
| Vitamin E supplementation for adults with diabetes mellitus |
| Vitamin E supplementation for preventing recurrent stroke and other vascular events in patients with stroke or transient ischaemic attack |
| Vitamin E supplementation for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
| Vitamin E supplementation in people with cystic fibrosis |
| Vitamin E supplementation in pregnancy |
| Vitamin K antagonists or low-molecular-weight heparin for long term treatment of symptomatic blood clots |
| Vitamin K antagonists versus antiplatelet therapy after transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke of presumed arterial origin |
| Vitamin K for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women |
| Vitamin K for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in people with acute or chronic liver diseases |
| Vitamin K prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage |
| Vitamin K supplementation during pregnancy for improving outcomes |
| Vitamin K supplementation for cystic fibrosis |
| Vitamin K supplementation to prevent cardiovascular disease |
| Vitamin supplementation for preventing miscarriage |
| Vitamins and minerals for subfertility in women |
| Vitamins and minerals for the prevention of colorectal adenomas and carcinomas |
| Vitamins C and E for asthma and exercise-induced breathlessness |
| Vitamins for epilepsy |
| Vitamins while pregnant: healthy or unnecessary? |
| Vitex agnus castus for premenstrual syndrome |
| Vitrectomy for idiopathic macular hole |
| Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling versus vitrectomy with no peeling for idiopathic full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) |
| Vitrification in comparison to slow freezing for egg cryopreservation in women undergoing assisted reproduction |
| Vivli to use Cochrane vocabulary to power Vivli’s search |
| Vocabulary interventions for second language learners up to six years of age |
| Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) programs are used to support persons with multiple sclerosis ( MS) on their entering or returning to work |
| Vocational rehabilitation for acquired brain injury in adults |
| Vocational rehabilitation for helping workers return to work after injuring their fingers, hand, or arm |
| Vocational rehabilitation for people with severe mental illness |
| Volatile pyrethroid spatial repellents for malaria prevention |
| Volunteer for Cochrane |
| Vortioxetine for the treatment of depression in adults |
| Vox reports on the 'worm wars' |
| Ward reduction without general anaesthesia versus reduction and repair under general anaesthesia for gastroschisis in newborn infants |
| Warfarin initiation nomograms of 5 mg and 10 mg for venous thromboembolism |
| Warfarin is the most efficacious agent for prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation |
| Warm versus cold blood, and any blood versus crystalloid, cardioplegia in adults undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass |
| Warmed fluids for preventing hypothermia during operations |
| Watch Co-Chair Tracey Howe present at launch of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing Platform |
| Watch Cochrane Library Editor in Chief's presentation "Leadership, systematic reviews, and COVID: an international perspective" |
| Watch panel session with Cochrane and WHO: "COVID-19: evidence challenges and lessons learned" |
| Watch the video of our World Health Assembly side-event on using evidence to address health challenges |
| Watch the video: Cochrane Sweden host webinar on clinical trial transparency |
| Watchful waiting versus surgical operation for asymptomatic hernia |
| Water fluoridation less effective now than in past |
| Water infusion versus air insufflation for colonoscopy |
| Water precautions for prevention of infection in children with ventilation tubes (grommets) |
| Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions: effects on child development in low- and middle-income countries |
| Water-based exercise training for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| Water-based exercises for improving activities of daily living after stroke |
| Water-based therapy for chronic venous insufficiency |
| Ways of communicating to a woman that she has breast cancer |
| Ways of helping children with cancer to take part in decisions about their health care |
| Ways of improving communication with children and adolescents about their cancer |
| Ways of improving older patients' involvement in their primary care |
| Ways to encourage workers to wear protective equipment to stop them breathing in harmful substances |
| Ways to help people follow prescribed medicines |
| Ways to help people stop using smokeless tobacco (including chewing tobacco, snuff and snus) |
| Ways to help pregnant women avoid preterm birth |
| Ways to help turn a breech baby to head first presentation at the end of pregnancy |
| Ways to improve use of hormonal birth control |
| Ways to increase use of non-hormonal long-acting birth control |
| Ways to reduce risky sexual behaviour in homeless youth to prevent HIV |
| Ways to support older people deciding whether to enter long-term residential care |
| We are now accepting applications for 2019 Cochrane Colloquium stipends |
| We are now accepting applications for Cochrane stipends for #CochraneLondon |
| We are now accepting proposals for Spanish workshops |
| We found no evidence of any beneficial effect of amino acid therapy (branched-chain amino acids or L-threonine) on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / motor neuron disease |
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| Weak evidence behind how we measure pain in babies |
| Weaning from mechanical ventilation using pressure support or a T-tube for a spontaneous breathing trial |
| Wearable cardiac monitoring using smart-devices for the detection of atrial fibrillation in adults |
