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Cochrane @ PubMed Health: another audience for reviews

PubMed Health is a US National of Library of Medicine (NLM) resource to make systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness easier to find and use. Visit it at pubmed.gov/health and follow developments on Twitter @PubMedHealth or Google+.

A comprehensive collection of systematic...

Cochrane for Dummies: by Anna Joseph, a laywoman-turned-Cochrane enthusiast

The South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre, which I joined two weeks back, kicked off its training workshops for the year 2012 with one on ‘Understanding and Using Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Informing Health Decisions’.

That’s quite a few unpalatable words for a...

Consumer stories: Mingming Zhang - Vision for Growth

I am Mingming from the Chinese Cochrane Centre. I have been involved in the Collaboration since 1998 and joined CCNet in1999. My roles in the Collaboration are varied including Cochrane author, consumer, centre coordinator and translator etc. My vision for the Cochrane Consumer...

Consumer Stories: Godwin Aja - Outreach and Development

I joined the CCNet in 1998 primarily to learn how Cochrane Systematic Reviews can be better used to support consumers in health care decision making, particularly in resource-constrained communities. Joining CCNet provided the tool I needed (in form of high quality health information) to further...

Campaigning for Evidence: Sara Yaron - a patient's story

I met The Cochrane Collaboration the first time, at an international conference regarding breast cancer, in the late 90’s in Europe. There, I read a brochure, published by CCNet, and fell in love with the idea. At that time, I was a very young woman diagnosed with breast cancer (grade 3)...