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Cochrane produces systematic reviews which are recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care resources. Listen to Cochrane review authors explain in plain language the evidence and findings of their high-impact reviews. In 5 minutes or less, healthcare professionals to patients and families can understand the latest trusted evidence to help make better informed decisions.

Cochrane Library Podcasts Cochrane

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Cochrane produces systematic reviews which are recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care resources. Listen to Cochrane review authors explain in plain language the evidence and findings of their high-impact reviews. In 5 minutes or less, healthcare professionals to patients and families can understand the latest trusted evidence to help make better informed decisions.

    Is alpha-lipoic acid (a natural antioxidant) better than no treatment or dummy treatment for nerve damage in people with diabetes?

    Is alpha-lipoic acid (a natural antioxidant) better than no treatment or dummy treatment for nerve damage in people with diabetes?

    Alpha-lipoic acid is sometimes used for the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. In this podcast, one of the authors, Caterina Delcea, talks with lead author Cristian Baicus, consultant in internal medicine from Colentina University Hospital Bucharest in Romania, about the January 2024 Cochrane review of this treatment.

    • 3 min
    Can music and vocal interventions benefit preterm infants and their parents?

    Can music and vocal interventions benefit preterm infants and their parents?

    The Cochrane Neonatal group has produced several hundred systematic reviews of interventions that might help to improve the care and treatment of preterm infants and their families. In this podcast, one of the group’s researchers, Dirk Bassler, talks with lead author Friederike Haslbeck, a clinical music therapist and senior researcher at the University Hospital Zurich, Department of Neonatology in Switzerland, about the September 2023 review looking at music and vocal interventions to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes for preterm infants.

    • 5 min
    Comparing two methods of wound closure in stoma reversal: purse-string closure versus linear skin closure

    Comparing two methods of wound closure in stoma reversal: purse-string closure versus linear skin closure

    The Cochrane Colorectal Group produces reviews across a wide range of conditions affecting the intestines. These were added to in March 2024 with a new review of different ways to close the skin when a person’s stoma is reversed. We asked lead author, Shahab Hajibandeh from Health Education and Improvement Wales to tell us more and he used the ElevenLabs AI Voice Generator to record this podcast.

    • 3 min
    Should transvaginal mesh, biological grafts, or native tissue be utilised to repair vaginal prolapse?

    Should transvaginal mesh, biological grafts, or native tissue be utilised to repair vaginal prolapse?

    The Cochrane Collaboration has published more than 30 reviews on interventions for patients with pelvic organ prolapse. Of these, a series of 6 systematic reviews specifically relating to surgical management were first published in 2016. These are currently being updated, with the update for one, on transvaginal mesh or grafts in transvaginal prolapse surgery being published in March 2024. In this podcast, one of the co-authors, Professor Christopher Maher speaks with lead author, Dr Ellen Yeung, a consultant urogynaecologist who works in Brisbane, Australia about the latest findings.

    • 6 min
    Antibiotics for acute middle ear infection (acute otitis media) in children

    Antibiotics for acute middle ear infection (acute otitis media) in children

    Over nearly 30 years, the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group has produced close to 200 reviews. One of their earliest, antibiotics for acute otitis media in children, was first published in 2000 and it was updated for the fourth time in November 2023. Here's two of the authors, Sharon Sanders and Paul Glasziou from the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University in Australia to talk about the latest findings.

    • 7 min
    Are population-based interventions (those aimed at entire communities rather than individuals) helpful in preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people?

    Are population-based interventions (those aimed at entire communities rather than individuals) helpful in preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people?

    There are several Cochrane reviews of strategies and interventions to reduce falls, particularly in older people. In January 2024, we published a new review of population-based approaches for falls prevention, and, in this podcast, Chris Todd, talks to co-author Lisa McGarrigle, both from the University of Manchester in the UK about the findings.

    • 4 min

Customer Reviews

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Poor sound quality and often incomprehensible english

Cochrane Review does a great job in accessing evidence-based truth in medical research and podcasts are a great way of for time-poor people to keep in touch. However their good work is often ruined by poor sound quality and incomprehensible spoken English. I applaud diversity but.......

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