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Podcast: Do probiotics help to treat acute infectious diarrhoea?

First author, Shelui Collinson from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK describes the latest findings from the update of this review .

Anthelmintics for people with neurocysticercosis

The objective of this review was to assess the effects of anthelmintics on people with neurocysticercosis.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

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Barriers and facilitators to healthcare workers’ adherence with infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines for respiratory infectious diseases: a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis

Identifying barriers and facilitators to healthcare workers’ adherence to IPC guidelines for respiratory infectious disease.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Anthelmintic drugs for treating ascariasis

Comparing the efficacy and safety of anthelmintics (albendazole, mebendazole, ivermectin) for treating people with Ascaris infection

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Agricultural and nutritional education interventions for reducing aflatoxin exposure to improve infant and child growth in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Assessing the effects on pre‐ and postnatal growth outcomes when agricultural and nutritional education interventions during the post‐harvest period that aim to reduce aflatoxin exposure are compared to usual support or no intervention.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Podcast:How effective is quarantine alone or combined with other public health measures to control coronavirus (COVID-2019)?

This podcast is for an earlier version of this review In this podcast, lead author, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit from Danube University Krems in Austria outlines the findings of the effectiveness of quarantine.

Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID‐19: a rapid review

To support WHO for their recommendations on quarantine, a rapid review was conducted on the effectiveness of quarantine during serious coronavirus outbreaks.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Death audits and reviews for reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality

Assessing the impact and cost‐effectiveness of different types of death audits and reviews in reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Covid-19: six million doses of hydroxychloroquine donated to US despite lack of evidence

Director of READ-IT & CIDG Co-ordinating Editor, Paul Garner, is quoted in the recent BMJ article (published 23 March 2020)

Diagnosing tuberculosis,Cochrane Special Collections

Tuberculosis causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide.

Peer-reviewed article

Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents

Evaluating the effects of interventions to improve vaccine uptake among adolescents.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

The TRANSFER Approach for assessing the transferability of systematic review findings

This paper describes the TRANSFER Approach, a novel approach for supporting collaboration between review authors and stakeholders from the beginning of the review process to systematically and transparently consider factors that may influence the transferability of systematic review findings.

Peer-reviewed article

Topical and device‐based treatments for fungal infections of the toenails

Assess the clinical and mycological effects of topical drugs and device‐based therapies for onychomycosis.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

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