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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.

  1. 31 JANV.

    Does galantamine help people with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease and people with mild cognitive impairment?

    There are many Cochrane Reviews of possible treatments for dementia. One of the earliest of these looked at the effects of a drug called galantamine, which is found in daffodil bulbs, and the review was updated in November 2024.

    3 min

  2. 30 JANV.

    What are the effects of interventions on sales of antimicrobial drugs without prescription in community pharmacies?

    The Cochrane Collaboration has produced several systematic reviews of interventions focusing on the problem of antimicrobial resistance. In January 2025, these were added to with a new review about the role of community pharmacies and, in this podcast, Sadatoshi Matsuoka, talks with lead author Moe Moe Thandar from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Japan about this pressing issue.

    6 min

  3. 9 JANV.

    Are midwife continuity of care models versus other models of care for childbearing women better for women and their babies?

    Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth has produced many reviews of interventions relevant to the organization and delivery of maternity care. In this podcast, two of the group’s researchers, Cristina Fernandez Turienzo and Hannah Rayment-Jones, midwives and senior research fellows at King’s College London in the UK, discuss their April 2024 update for one of these reviews, looking at the effects of midwife continuity of care models for childbearing women.

    6 min

  4. 6 JANV.

    Cognitive behavioural therapy plus standard care for first-episode and recent-onset psychosis

    In its nearly 30 years, the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group produced more than 250 reviews. One of its last, published in March 2024, looked at cognitive behavioural therapy for first episode and recent-onset psychosis. Here’s lead author, Susanna Mayer from the Technical University of Munich in Germany to tell us more.

    4 min

  5. 19/12/2024

    How accurate are cognitive assessment tools, that are completed by people themselves, at detecting dementia?

    There are more than 100 Cochrane reviews relevant to dementia, and these were added to in December 2024 with a new review of the accuracy of self-administered cognitive assessment tools for its detection. In this podcast, Podcast Editor for the Cochrane Library, Mike Clarke, talks with one of the authors, Fariha Naeem from Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland, about the review and its findings.

    4 min

  6. 18/12/2024

    What are the benefits and risks of different treatments that could delay or slow the progression of progressive multiple sclerosis?

    There are more than 60 Cochrane Reviews relevant to multiple sclerosis and, one of these, a network meta-analysis of immunomodulators and immunosuppressants for progressive multiple sclerosis, was updated in September 2024. We asked one of the authors, Francesco Nonino from the Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna in Italy, to tell us about the condition and the latest evidence in this podcast.

    5 min

  7. 13/12/2024

    Improving the implementation of school-based policies and practices to improve student health

    Helping young people develop a healthy lifestyle could have long term implications for their health and wellbeing. In this podcast, Mia Parkinson, Cochrane Communications Officer, talks with Daniel Lee from the University of Newcastle in Callaghan, Australia, about the December 2024 update of the Cochrane review of ways to enhance the implementation of school-based policies or practices to improve diet and physical activity and reduce obesity, and the use of tobacco and alcohol.

    5 min

  8. 12/12/2024

    Healthcare workers' perceptions and experiences of communicating with older adults about vaccination

    Infectious diseases are a major cause of illness and death among older adults. Vaccines can prevent some of these diseases but the uptake of vaccination among older adults varies across settings and groups. Communication with their healthcare worker can help older people makes decisions about vaccination and this is explored in the July 2021 Cochrane qualitative evidence synthesis of healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of communicating with people over 50 about vaccination. In this podcast, two authors of this synthesis, Simon Lewin from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Claire Glenton from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, discuss why they did the review and what they found.

    6 min
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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.

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  • Création
    Cochrane
  • Années d’activité
    2008 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    100
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Site web de l’émission
    Cochrane Library Podcasts