– Current evidence suggests that calorie (energy) labelling on menus, and on or next to products, leads to reductions in calories selected and bought from food and non-alcoholic drinks. The evidence ...

Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) may reduce the effort required to walk, and increase walking speed and satisfaction with walking in people with calf muscle weakness due to neuromuscular disorders, but we ...

Incentives, such as money, vouchers or deposits, can be used to encourage people to quit smoking, and to reward them if they remain non-smoking. Such schemes can be run in workplaces, in clinics, and ...

We wanted to find out if pre-emptive treatment aimed at transplant recipients who are at risk of developing CMV disease, rather than administering universal prophylaxis, including those who are ...

- Virtual reality might improve balance and postural control, upper limb function, and participation and quality of life, but the overall quality of the evidence is limited. - Since these results are ...

Subarachnoid thrombolysis is where a clot-dissolving drug is administered to clear the blood after subarachnoid haemorrhage. This may improve outcomes since blood in the subarachnoid space is ...

• When comparing long versus short gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa) treatment, there was little to no difference between groups for live birth and ongoing pregnancy rates, but the long ...

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The question of whether gender differences exist in the health literacy of migrants cannot be fully answered in this qualitative evidence synthesis. Gender-specific findings were presented in only ...

The use of NSAIDs for symptomatic management of uncomplicated UTIs probably results in less short-term resolution of symptoms and greater use of rescue antibiotics by day 30 compared to primary ...

疫苗接种对与流感感染有关的哮喘恶化的保护程度仍不确定。最近公布的灭活分离病毒流感疫苗随机试验的证据表明，在成人或三岁以上儿童接种疫苗后，哮喘恶化情况没有立即显著增加。

总之，干细胞移植可减轻缺血性卒中受试者的神经功能障碍，但不能改善其预后。未观察到明显的安全性问题。但是，这些结论均来自存在高偏倚风险、低或极低质量证据的小样本随机对照试验 ...