School-based programmes may prevent adolescents from starting to use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and a community-based programme delivered by text message probably helps adolescents quit ...

Offering counselling plus nicotine replacement therapy (a treatment that provides nicotine in a safer form than tobacco smoking to help people reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms), during a stay ...

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What is the aim of this review? The aim of this Cochrane Review was to find out if cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is effective for tinnitus. Cochrane researchers collected and analysed all ...

What is the aim of this review? The aim of this Cochrane Review was to find out what happens when primary healthcare services are delivered by nurses instead of doctors. We collected and analysed all ...

Neuropathic pain is pain coming from damaged nerves, and can have a variety of different names. Some of the more common are painful diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, or post-stroke pain. It ...

The effects of three weight-reducing medicines (orlistat, phentermine/topiramate and naltrexone/bupropion) on death rates and cases of heart disease are unclear for people with hypertension (high ...

Review question: This Cochrane review has evaluated whether phytoestrogen treatments reduce the number and severity of hot flushes and whether they are safe and acceptable. Background: Hormone therapy ...

Does mirror therapy improve movement, the performance of daily activities, pain, and lack of attention to and awareness of the affected field of vision (visuospatial neglect) after stroke. Paralysis ...

Resumos para Leigos (Plain Language Summaries - PLS) são resumos das evidências em saúde produzidas pela Cochrane, escritos de uma forma que todos possam entender. Na Cochrane, escrevemos revisões ...

In the past, women have been cared for and supported by other women during labour and birth, and have had someone with them throughout, which we call ‘continuous support’. However, in many countries ...

Module 11 has been written and compiled by: Jennifer Petkovic, Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada Vivian Welch, Campbell and Cochrane ...