Does preconception lifestyle advice help people with infertility to have a baby?
Cochrane Reviews cover a wide range of interventions to help couples with infertility or subfertility to conceive, and these are updated to take account of new evidence or introduce new review methods. One of the reviews, looking at preconception lifestyle advice for people with infertility, was updated for the first time in April 2021 and we asked lead author, Tessy Boedt from the Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism at KU Leuven in Belgium to tell us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Is vitamin D an effective and safe treatment for COVID-19?
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021, we published the first version of a living systematic review on the effects of vitamin D supplementation and, in this podcast, Vanessa Piechotta talks to the first author and her colleague at the University Hospital in Cologne Germany, Julia Stroehlein, about the potential effects of vitamin D and the evidence they ’ve found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Stopping long-term antidepressants in people with depression or anxiety
Some Cochrane reviews investigate the effects of different ways of stopping, rather than starting treatments. A new review in April 2021 does this for adults who have been taking antidepressants for some time. One of the authors, Mieke van Driel from The University of Queensland in Australia tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Treatment options for newly diagnosed glioblastoma in older people
In March 2021, the Cochrane Neuro-Oncology Group published a series of eight new complex systematic reviews on priority topics for the brain tumour community. These were selected from the most important unanswered questions identified by people in this area using James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership methods, which bring together patients and the public with practitioners. One of the reviews was a network meta-analysis of treatments for glioblastoma in the elderly and we asked lead author, Catherine Hanna from the University of Glasgow in the UK, to tell us about the condition and the review. (Source: Podcasts f...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Adult patient access to electronic health records
Many healthcare organizations use electronic health records to manage patient data and it has been suggested that it may be beneficial if patients can access their own records as well. In this podcast, Christina Cannellopoulos talks with lead author Elske Ammenwerth, a researcher in Medical Informatics from the University UMIT TIROL in Austria, about their Cochrane Review on this topic. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Is plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 an effective treatment for people with COVID-19?
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. We ’re keeping these reviews up to date as new evidence emerges and are now on the fourth version of our living review of convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin for COVID-19 patients, which was published in May 2021. In this podcast, Vanessa Piechotta speaks with one of the lead authors, Claire Iannizzi both from the University Hospital Cologne in Germany about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Antidepressant treatment for postnatal depression
Postnatal depression affects many women in the months after having their baby and one of the early Cochrane Reviews looked at its treatment with antidepressants. The very first version of the review was published in 2001, and the review has been refreshed and updated again, with a new version published in February 2021. Here ’s one of the authors, Claire Wilson from King’s College London in the UK, to tell us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Adult patient access to electronic health records
Many healthcare organizations use electronic health records to manage patient data and it has been suggested that it may be beneficial if patients can access their own records as well. In this podcast, Christina Cannellopoulos talks with lead author Elske Ammenwerth, a researcher in Medical Informatics from the University UMIT TIROL in Austria, about their Cochrane Review on this topic. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
