#CochraneDaily In March 2026, the Cochrane Library published 6 new reviews, no updated reviews with new conclusions, 2 updated reviews without changed conclusions and one revised review. The total of 8 new and updated reviews is the lowest monthly total since Cochrane Library went monthly in 2010.
#CochraneDaily Is masking patients and clinicians in trials Fool's Gold? Read the commentary at www.bmj.com/content/368/... and check out this @cochrane.org review of the comparative effects of active and standard placebos
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#AprilFool #Placebo
#CochraneDaily Just published! Study of using LLMs to assess risk of bias in randomised trials concludes that none of those tested were sufficiently reliable for fully autonomous RoB assessment and that current use should be supervised.
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@ebiomedicine.bsky.social
#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #22 HUMIDIFICATION OF INDOOR AIR AT THE WORKPLACE Indoor air humidification at the workplace may have little to no effect on dryness symptoms of the eyes, skin or nose
#CochraneLibrary #Humidification
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#CochraneDaily Are you thinking about the weather? A search of the Cochrane Library finds 269 Cochrane Reviews that contain the word "wet" and 1108 that contain "dry".
#Wet #Dry #Weather #CochraneLibrary
#CochraneDaily Just published! Study of accuracy of screening titles & abstracts for rapid reviews by 1 vs 2 reviewers, building on research from 25 years ago
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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#RapidReviews #EvidenceSynthesis @andreatricco.bsky.social
#CochraneDaily Daffodil bulbs contain galantamine, which has been examined in 3 #CochraneLibrary reviews. The most recent looked at its use for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment and was the subject of the last Cochrane podcast
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#CochraneDaily On World Tuberculosis Day (www.who.int/campaigns/wo...), there are many @Cochrane.org reviews of prevention, treatment or diagnosis of TB. Find them quickly here
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#WorldTuberculosisDay #TB #CochraneLibrary
#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #21
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
@Cochrane.org Review found that yoga, treadmill exercise or support to increase physical activity may improve symptoms
#IBS #PhysicalActivity #yoga
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#CochraneDaily On International Day of Happiness (www.un.org/en/observanc...), there’s slightly more sad than happy in Cochrane Reviews. A search for "happy" in the #CochraneLibrary finds 12 full reviews but "sad" finds 13.
@cochrane.org #DayofHappiness #BeHappy
#CochraneDaily Just published! Read this celebration of Cochrane Oral Health, as the group enters its fourth decade
#Cochrane #OralHealth #EvidenceSynthesis #CochraneCollaboration
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#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #20 GREEN TEA FOR PREVENTION OF CANCER. On #StPatrick'sDay review found inconsistent results for effects of #green tea on #cancer risk
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005004.pub3/full
@cochrane.org @evidsynirl.bsky.social
#CochraneDaily Work on the Cochrane Methodology Register was stopped in 2012, but it remains a unique source of information on studies and articles about methods used in evaluations of health and social care. It can now be downloaded free, as an Excel spreadsheet from 👇
methodology.cochrane.org
#CochraneDaily On World Sleep Day (worldsleepday.org), wake up to the @Cochrane.org Review of the effects on sleep of adapting shift work schedules for shift workers
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#WorldSleepDay #Sleep #EvidenceSynthesis
#CochraneDaily On World Kidney Day 2026 (www.worldkidneyday.org), the Cochrane Kidney and Transplant Group (kidneyandtransplant.cochrane.org/about-us) have 234 full reviews and protocols for 44 more in the Cochrane Library
#WorldKidneyDay #Kidney #CochraneLibrary
#CochraneDaily During #WorldGlaucomaWeek (www.worldglaucomaweek.org), catch up on @cochrane.org evidence with the December 2025 Cochrane Review of prognostic factors associated with progression of open‐angle #glaucoma
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#WorldGlaucomaDay #CochraneLibrary
#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #19 INTERVENTIONS FOR MYOPIA CONTROL IN CHILDREN Cochrane living review and network meta‐analysis, updated in 2025, examines the effects of many interventions for helping children who are short-sighted
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
#CochraneDaily Continue the celebration of International Women’s Day by learning about the WOMAN trials at the LSHTM, looking at the effect of tranexamic acid (TXA) on bleeding after childbirth and the best ways to give it: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
@lshtm.bsky.social #InternationalWomenDay
#CochraneDaily Just published! Study of 249 @cochrane.org reviews on nutrition and physical activity uses #Altmetric data to show generally high online and scientific attention towards these reviews, mainly due to mentions in social media and academic citations
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#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #18 ASPIRIN FOR PREVENTING #ColorectalCancer Despite 10 #RCT with ~125,000 participants, this Feb 2026 review concludes that it was not possible to draw definitive conclusions about this use of #aspirin
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#CochraneDaily On World Obesity Day (www.worldobesityday.org), there are dozens of Cochrane Reviews of interventions for obesity. Find them quickly with this search pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=obesity...
#WorldObesityDay #CochraneLibrary #EvidenceSynthesis #Obesity
#CochraneDaily In February 2026, the #CochraneLibrary published 15 new reviews, 3 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, and 2 other updated reviews
@cochrane.org
#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #17 WATER FOR WOUND CLEANSING. Tap water is commonly used to clean wounds but the randomised trials show that it may make little or no difference to wound healing compared to no cleansing
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#CochraneDaily
Gold: 122; Silver: 56; Bronze: 0.
That’s the number of Cochrane reviews that contain the word.
#Olympics #Gold #Silver #Bronze #CochraneLibrary @cochrane.org
#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #16 BLUE‐LIGHT FILTERING SPECTACLE LENSES FOR EYE STRAIN #CochraneLibrary review from 2023 found no benefits versus clear lenses for eye strain caused by computer use
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
#EyeStrain #EyeHealth
@cochrane.org
#CochraneDaily 1/2 Just published! Should randomised and non-randomised studies be included in network meta-analyses and living systematic reviews if they are to be responsive during during public health emergencies?
#CochraneDaily On #WorldRadioDay www.un.org/en/observanc... @cochrane.org CENTRAL includes a randomised trial from Iran of the effects of, among other things, listening to the #radio as a way to prevent #delirium in ICU patients
www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/...
#CochraneLibrary #RCT
#CochraneDaily Just published! Exploratory study suggests that using the "Best Practice Principles in partnering with consumers" (BPP) tool in the implementation of co-produced @cochrane.org evidence promotes knowledge translation
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#PPI #EvidenceSynthesis
#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #15 BREATHING EXERCISES FOR ADULTS WITH #ASTHMA. @cochrane.org review, updated in 2020, found some positive effects on quality of life, hyperventilation symptoms and lung function. Read the review at www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
