Tailored implementation strategies (activities designed to tackle specific challenges facing healthcare professionals trying to action a new practice or recommendation) likely lead to slight ...

NSAIDs are a group of drugs that help reduce inflammation, fever, and pain, and can also help prevent blood clots. Aspirin and ibuprofen are examples of widely used NSAIDs. They have been studied as a ...

Interventions to promote the use of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes may increase enrolment of patients. The interventions probably lead to small increases in patients' attendance of CR ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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We conducted a review of the effects of chondroitin sulfate for people with osteoarthritis. We found 43 studies with 9,110 people after searching for studies up to November 2013. Majority were studies ...

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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 ...