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Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #45
SEX AND LABOUR At the time of the last search for this Cochrane Review in 2007, there was only 1 randomised trial (28 women) and the role of sexual intercourse for induction of labour was uncertain
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On International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction www.un.org/en/observanc..., you can still find summaries for hundreds of relevant systematic reviews on the #EvidenceAid website (evidenceaid.org/evidence/), now supported by the International Rescue Committee (www.rescue.org)
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#CochraneDaily Just Published! Study of bias and reliability of AI-based peer review of scientific abstracts found that assessments by ChatGPT and Claude did not seem to be influenced by gender or geographic location of authors
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#CochraneDaily Just published! Authors of network meta-analyses of non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) encounter considerable difficulties in classifying treatment nodes highlighting need for prespecified structured frameworks for certain types of NPI
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Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #44
OMEGA‐3 POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS FOR DRY EYE 2019 review suggested a possible role for #omega‐3 supplementation in managing dry eye disease but evidence was uncertain and inconsistent
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Systematic review of studies of using large language models for screening articles for inclusion in systematic reviews concludes that #LLM might substantially reduce the time needed for this key task.
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In September 2026, the Cochrane Library published 14 new reviews, 6 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, 5 updated reviews where the conclusions had not changed and 1 review that was revised to correct important errors. See them at www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/table-o...

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On International Music Day imc-cim.org/internationa... there are many Cochrane reviews of music therapy including last year’s third update of the evaluation of music‐based therapies for people with #dementia
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Just published! INSPECT-SR. New tool for systematic reviewers for assessing the trustworthiness of randomised trials
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On International Day for Universal Access to Information (www.un.org/en/observanc...), remember that people in more than 100 countries have one-click access to the whole of the Cochrane Library, completely free
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Today, searching PubMed for “COVID-19” limited to systematic reviews retrieves 12,000, a year since it reached 11,000. How many of these are needed? How much #ResearchWaste do they represent, 6 years on from this opinion piece?
blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/04/...

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#CochraneDaily PROSPERO, an international systematic review registry passed 500,000 registrations this month www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/. Launched in Feb 2011, 1000 reviews were registered in the 1st year link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Now, 1000 are registered every 3 days.
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On the autumn equinox, this 2017 @cochrane.org review of the use of a class of drugs called pentasaccharides for deep vein thrombosis includes the EQUINOX trial, alongside trials called MATISSE, Rembrandt and van Gogh.
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Falls Prevention Awareness Day www.daysoftheyear.com/days/falls-p...

Learn more about environmental interventions for preventing falls in older people in the community in this @cochrane.org review
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On World Alzheimer’s Day (www.alz.org/about/awaren...), the #CochraneLibrary contains dozens of @Cochrane.org reviews about the diagnosis or treatment of #Alzheimer’s disease. Find them with this search
www.cochranelibrary.com/advanced-sea...

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On #WorldBambooDay (www.worldbamboo.net/worldbambooday), Cochrane CENTRAL includes this randomised trial which found that spending time in a #bamboo forest, rather than in an urban environment, can improve physiological well-being www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/...

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Malaysia Day is on 16 September and PubMed now lists more than 160 entries for Cochrane Reviews with an author in Malaysia. Click below to find them

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If you’re looking for evidence on the effects of interventions to improve recruitment to randomised trials, check out this newly updated #CochraneLibrary Methodology Review
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Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #43
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Review found high‐certainty evidence that #omega‐3 fats don’t have important positive or negative effects on mortality or #cardiovascular events

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Just published! Study of 21 network meta-analyses of interventions for knee and hip osteoarthritis in leading general medical and specialty journals found that 13 were rated high of bias. Read it free at www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106...