Compared to levonorgestrel (a common emergency contraception pill), mifepristone probably results in fewer pregnancies. It is also probably more effective at preventing pregnancy than the Yuzpe method ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scabies is a parasitic infection of the skin. It occurs throughout the world, but is particularly problematic in areas of poor sanitation, overcrowding, and social disruption, and is endemic in many ...

In an asthma attack, the airways (passages to the lungs) narrow from muscle spasms and swelling (inflammation). Bronchodilators (reliever inhalers to open up the lungs and airways) can be used for the ...

Systematic reviews address a need for health decision makers to be able to access high quality, relevant, accessible and up-to-date information. Systematic reviews aim to minimize bias through the use ...

Very preterm infants (those born more than eight weeks early) and very low birth weight infants (those weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth) are at risk of developing necrotising enterocolitis, a severe ...