The Cochrane Collaboration offices are small. If you have ever been to Summerstown in Oxford, United Kingdom, chances are you passed them without even knowing. Standing outside their modestly sized ...

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How can we have a rational health service if we don’t know which of the things being done in it are useful and which are useless or possibly even harmful? — Archie Cochrane When Julia Fullerton-Batten ...

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, not–for–profit organisation that aims to help people make well–informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and promoting the ...

An international non-profit organization committed to providing the most reliable evidence of the benefits and harms of healthcare interventions has released a statement calling for free access to all ...

Update (September 20): The Cochrane Collaboration issued a statement yesterday (September 19) stating that the board’s decision is “not about freedom of speech” (emphasis Cochrane’s). Instead, “it is ...

One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway in Edinburgh, Scotland, after its governing board voted to expel a member. The Cochrane ...

To understand if a new treatment for an illness is really better than older treatments, doctors and researchers look to the best available evidence. Health professionals want a “last word” in evidence ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...