Few studies examine how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests assist or hinder efforts to prevent illness, hospitalisations, or people dying. Due to weak evidence, we’re ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prefusion vaccines reduced RSV illness in older adults. When pregnant women received RSV F protein-based vaccines, their babies had fewer serious RSV illnesses. This ...

Currently, psychological treatments are the only recommended treatment for cannabis use disorder. There are currently no medicines specifically for the treatment of cannabis use disorder. We wanted to ...

We performed an update to the previously published review but did not find enough evidence that eye drops or ointments containing antibiotics have benefit compared with placebo (dummy treatment), or ...

Very few clinical trials have evaluated the benefits and harms of omega-3 fatty acid supplements for treating peripheral nerve damage (damage to nerves outside the brain and spinal cord) associated ...

People with stroke can safely take part in programmes of exercise which involve muscle strength training. By engaging in muscle strength training, people with stroke can increase muscle strength and ...

People with stroke can complete programmes of exercise that target both aerobic fitness and muscle strength (this is called 'combined training'). By engaging in combined training, people with stroke ...

A procedure that may assist couples is intrauterine insemination (IUI). This is an assisted reproduction procedure where sperm are placed directly into the uterus at a specific time in the woman's ...

Epilepsy is a common condition that affects the brain and causes seizures. In a seizure, the brain's electrical signals are suddenly disrupted or become too active.

4 School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia 5 Cochrane Public Health; School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia 6 Department of ...

Oseltamivir and zanamivir have been stockpiled in many countries to treat and prevent seasonal and pandemic influenza, before an influenza vaccine matched to the circulating virus becomes available.

Vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) reduce the risk of infection in older adults and infants, a new Cochrane ...