The Cochrane review did not include studies that have shown that face masks can reduce transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Pictured here Olivia Palermo ...

People online are touting the results of a Cochrane review to incorrectly claim that it shows masks “don’t work” against the coronavirus. But the primary conclusion of the review is that it’s ...

In the fields of health and medicine, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews may be the most trusted source of information. So when a massive Cochrane review finds that face-masking likely did ...

Introduction Interest in cold-stored platelets (CSP) has seen a resurgence over the last 20 years, having not been clinically used since the 1980s. A multitude of in vitro studies have reported ...

Context: I coauthored a published review of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and published a review on the same topic in MedGenMed (now the ...

The effects of three weight-reducing medicines (orlistat, phentermine/topiramate and naltrexone/bupropion) on death rates and cases of heart disease are unclear for people with hypertension (high ...

The question of whether and to what extent face masks work to prevent respiratory infections such as COVID and influenza has split the scientific community for decades. Although there is strong ...

There remains no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection, state the authors of an updated Cochrane Review, which now contains 11 trials across 3409 ...