Compared with no structured exercise, exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for people with coronary heart disease reduces heart attacks, likely reduces hospital admissions and may slightly reduce the ...

In preterm infants, physical activity programmes may provide a small benefit for bone development and body weight gain over the short term. Physical activity programmes may have little to no effect on ...

What is stroke? A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted, leading to damage in specific areas of the brain. The impact of stroke can be life-chang ...

Telling people what treatment they will receive – rather than them not being told – improves recruitment. Telephoning people who don't respond to an initial postal invitation to join a trial improves ...

It is unclear if medicines used to prevent bone loss (bisphosphonates) lower the risk of breaking a hip, backbone (spine), or other bones in men. These medicines probably do not cause more unwanted ...

Iodine supplementation likely reduces the occurrence of insufficient production of thyroid hormones (hypothyroidism), and risk of infant death (mortality) in places with high infant mortality rates.

What is the aim of this review? The aim of this Cochrane Review was to find out if general health checks reduce illness and deaths. This is an update of a previous Cochrane Review. General health ...

Haemorrhoids are among the most common benign anorectal pathologies which usually manifest with the common symptoms and signs of bleeding, pain, pruritus, swelling and discharge. The prevalence can ...

Cranberries (as cranberry juice, tablets or capsules) have been used for many years to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). Cranberries contain proanthocyanidins (PACs), substances that can ...

The resources in this collection mostly cover the Cochrane risk of bias tool for randomized trials (RoB 2). Under 'Risk of bias tools' there is also guidance on ROBINS-I tool for assessing risk of ...

- There may be little or no reduction in the risk of developing a cold with zinc supplements compared to placebo. - For people who already have a cold, there may be a reduction in how long the cold ...

Infection can interfere with the normal wound-healing process. In order to reduce the risk of infection, wounds are routinely cleansed to remove dirt, contamination or impurities. In this review, a ...