Gifts and payments from pharmaceutical companies to doctors increase inappropriate prescribing and the number of prescriptions doctors write, and probably increase the costs. Pharmaceutical company ...

Stopping sedation each day may reduce the time people spend on a ventilator, probably reduces the number who die, and probably reduces the time people spend in intensive care and hospital, compared to ...

Compared with an inactive (dummy) treatment, aciclovir and penciclovir creams probably speed up cold sore healing by about one day without increasing the risk of unwanted events. Compared with each ...

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With this Cochrane Review we tried to find out the best way to control bad breath, also called halitosis, due to a disease within the mouth in adults. Bad breath or halitosis is caused by too much ...

Nicotine e-cigarettes, commonly known as vapes, are more effective in helping people quit smoking than many conventional methods such as nicotine gums and patches and quitting with behavioural support ...

Our Handbooks describe the process of preparing and maintaining diverse types of systematic reviews. Handbooks are updated regularly to reflect advances in systematic review methods and in response to ...

There has been an increasing demand for whiter teeth. Home-based whitening products with a bleaching action have become popular and are prescribed to people by the dentist or purchased ...

Overweight and obesity are important public health problems and are associated with many serious health conditions. The risk of developing overweight and obesity depends on lifestyle factors such as ...

Urinary incontinence is the leakage of urine when coughing or exercising (stress urinary incontinence) or after a strong uncontrollable urge to urinate (urgency urinary incontinence). In women who ...

Compared to placebo, cold therapy may improve blood loss, pain, knee range of motion and short-term swelling after total knee replacement (TKR). We are less certain of its effect on blood transfusions ...

The aim of this Cochrane Review, first published in 2007, was to summarise research on immunising healthy children up to the age of 16 with influenza vaccines during influenza seasons. We used ...