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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We reviewed the evidence about the effect of exercise therapy on pain, disability, patient satisfaction, and quality of life among people with neck pain. Neck pain is common; it can limit a person's ...

What are surgical site infections and who is at risk? The inadvertent transfer of micro-organisms such as bacteria to a patient's wound site during surgery can result in a wound infection that is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newly updated evidence published in the Cochrane Library today compares Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and clinically-related Twelve-Step Facilitation (TSF) programs with other treatments, such as ...

Compared to placebo (a sham medication), tirzepatide likely helps adults with obesity lose weight in the medium term (up to 2 years), and this weight reduction is likely to be maintained over the long ...

Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI, and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence have published a joint position statement on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in evidence ...