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Screening modestly reduces prostate cancer deaths
11 Maio 2026
Blood tests to detect potential signs of prostate cancer likely reduce the risk of dying from prostate cancer, an updated Cochrane review finds. This is a shift from the previous version of the review, which did not find sufficient evidence that screening reduced prostate cancer deaths…
What makes Cochrane’s new AI study innovative?
17 Abril 2026
Cochrane has released a pre-print of the protocol for our innovative study that will test whether artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support or enhance evidence synthesis. Gerald Gartlehner from Cochrane Austria, Principal Investigator for the study, discusses how the study works, and what makes it interesting.
Anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drugs show no clinically meaningful effect
16 Abril 2026
Drugs that target amyloid beta proteins in the brain likely have no clinically meaningful positive effects, while increasing the risk of bleeding and swelling in the brain, a new Cochrane review has found.
Simple antiseptic can reduce newborn infections
26 Março 2026
A new Cochrane review finds that chlorhexidine likely cuts umbilical cord infection rates by about 29% in low- and middle- income countries, and may reduce newborn deaths.
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