Intermittent fasting is unlikely to lead to greater weight loss in overweight or obese adults than traditional dietary advice or doing nothing, a new Cochrane review finds.

A living systematic review is continually updated to incorporate newly emerging evidence as it becomes available. The approach involves frequent cycles of searching, screening, appraisal, and integration of new data. This approach is increasingly valuable in dynamic research areas where evidence evolves quickly.

Nurses can safely deliver many services traditionally performed by doctors, with little to no difference in deaths, safety events, or how patients felt about their health, according to a new Cochrane review. In some cases, nurse-led care even outperformed doctor-led care.

An influential Cochrane review has changed how hospitals across the world treat stroke patients, saving thousands of lives and improving care for hundreds of thousands more.

A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that no induction method was clearly effective than low-dose vaginal misoprostol, although some methods were less effective and safety profiles varied.

Exercise may reduce symptoms of depression to a similar extent as psychological therapy, according to an updated Cochrane review. When compared with antidepressant medication, exercise also showed a similar effect, but the evidence was of low certainty.

There is no clear evidence that cannabis-based medicines provide pain relief for chronic neuropathic pain, an updated Cochrane review finds.

Within the framework of a memorandum between the Cochrane global Network and Wikipedia, Cochrane Iran has undertaken the translation and publication of a series of medical Wikipedia pages into Persian, with the aim of improving the quality of medical information available in the public web space.

Free or subsidized school meals lead to modest gains in math and school enrolment, according to a new Cochrane review that examined the global impact of school feeding programs on disadvantaged children in both high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries.

An updated Cochrane review has found that calcium supplementation has no effect on pre-eclampsia, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of calcium in preventing hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.