Multifaceted behavioral programs that are intended to improve regular usage of eye pressure-lowering eye drops in people with high eye pressure or diagnosed with glaucoma can include a combination of ...

– For people who have heart failure with a normal heart rhythm, there seems to be little to no advantage of warfarin (an anticoagulant: a medicine which prevents blood clotting by blocking proteins) ...

What are the benefits and risks of using medication known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists and antagonists in the management of premenstrual syndrome (PMS)?

La patientèle et le public peuvent rejoindre le Réseau Cochrane Patient and Public, une communauté importante et croissante ...

Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a long-term (chronic) swelling and infection of the middle ear, with ear discharge (otorrhoea) through a perforated tympanic membrane (eardrum). The main ...

There are a few approaches to clean the affected ears and remove discharge. These include: – using cotton wool or tissue paper (called dry mopping); – sucking out pus and fluid that is blocking the ...

The available evidence is of very low certainty, so we are unable to draw conclusions about the effects of melatonin on quality of life and sleep at three months in people receiving treatment for ...

Women with regular spontaneous periods (menstrual cycles) may be offered a range of cycle regimens to prepare the womb lining (the endometrium) for FET. Alternatively, FET can be carried out after ...

While the use of an antenatal psychosocial assessment may increase the clinician's awareness of psychosocial risk, neither of these small studies provides sufficient evidence that routine antenatal ...

Probiotics may prevent AOM in children not prone to AOM, but the inconsistency of the subgroup analyses suggests caution in interpreting these results. Probiotics decreased the proportion of children ...

In the overall analysis, preterm birth < 37 weeks and early preterm birth < 34 weeks were reduced in women receiving omega-3 LCPUFA compared with no omega-3. There was a possibly reduced risk of ...

Risperidone and aripiprazole may reduce symptoms of irritability compared to placebo in children with ASD in the short term, but lurasidone probably has little to no effect on irritability compared to ...