Treatment for iron deficiency anaemia includes oral iron supplements or intravenous iron. Studies have found a risk of serious allergic reactions with intravenous iron. Another option is to restore ...

Three studies of migrant women provided evidence on aspects that were related to migrant women, some of which also indicated differences between women and men.

- The overall quality of evidence supporting interventions to reduce surgical site infection in adult heart surgery is poor. Studies used varying definitions for wound infection, which meant that it ...

If you found this evidence helpful, please consider donating to Cochrane. We are a charity that produces accessible evidence to help people make health and care decisions. McMaster D, Halliday S, ...

Perineal HAase injection during the second stage of labour may result in a lower incidence of perineal trauma (tears or episiotomy, or both) compared with no intervention, but not compared with ...

Mike: Hello, I’m Mike Clarke, podcast editor for the Cochrane Library. Globally, postpartum haemorrhage is responsible for a quarter of maternal deaths after childbirth. Tears of the perineum, which ...

If you found this evidence helpful, please consider donating to Cochrane. We are a charity that produces accessible evidence to help people make health and care decisions. Boie S, Uldbjerg N, Bor P, ...

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of psychotherapeutic interventions in the treatment of older adults with ...

To identify and estimate the prognostic value of molecular biomarkers as predictors of pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in people with locally advanced rectal cancer.

Nearly half (47%) of all clinical trials remain unpublished. Whether a trial is published and how long it takes is influenced by whether there are positive results, how large the trial is and if it is ...

• Fenoldopam (a medicine that rapidly widens and relaxes blood vessels) probably reduces the risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) (a condition where the kidneys suddenly lose their ability to ...