Compared to traditional dietary advice (like restricting calories or eating different types of foods), intermittent fasting may make little to no difference to weight loss and quality of life in ...

Does taking folic acid (folate) supplements affect the risk or severity of malaria infection amongst people who are taking (antifolate) medications to prevent or treat malaria, in areas where malaria ...

We cannot draw conclusions about which financial arrangements work best for organizing rehabilitation services. Further high-quality research is needed, especially in low- and middle-income countries, ...

Medications (such as melatonin, growth hormones, brain stimulants, atorvastatin, or dopamine and serotonin regulators) likely reduce fatigue after a traumatic brain injury. Other treatments, such as ...

We searched for studies that compared care delivered by a nurse instead of a doctor in hospital settings. We included studies that examined patient outcomes (death, patient safety events, clinical ...

Training health professionals in stop-smoking techniques helps encourage health professionals to ask patients if they are smoking. If a patient is smoking, health professionals are then equipped with ...

Nurses can safely deliver many services traditionally performed by doctors, with little to no difference in deaths, safety events, or how patients felt about their health, according to a new Cochrane ...

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Exercise may be moderately effective compared to no therapy for reducing symptoms of depression. The evidence suggests there is little to no difference in the reduction of symptoms of depression ...

What is the aim of this review? The aim of this Cochrane Review was to find out if using topical sunscreen and physical barrier methods (such as sun-protective clothing, hats, sunglasses, and the ...

Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they ...

Following this, four Board members (Gerald Gartlehner, David Hammerstein Mintz, Joerg Meerpohl and Nancy Santesso) decided to resign as Cochrane trustees with immediate effect. This situation required ...