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#CochraneDaily 🎧 PODCAST🎧 In the final @CochraneLibrary podcast, you can hear about the effects of a drug called galantamine, which is found in daffodil bulbs, for people with dementia. Listen at

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#CochraneDaily Just published! Study on 500 abstracts of @CochraneLibrary reviews finds that PRISMA-A adherence did not change between 2016 and 2023 @JClinEpi #EvidenceSynthesis

#WordsOfToday for #payacomplimentday "Do you think people grow more from your criticism of what you regard as their failings or from your praise for their successes?" Rath Moladh, 2015 @WordsMatter_

#WordsOfToday "Always have some spare AA and AAA batteries in the kitchen" Eddy Thomson, 2020 #BePrepared #Batteries @SeffSaid.

#CochraneDaily 🎧 In one of the last Cochrane #podcasts, Sadatoshi Matsuoka & Moe Moe Thandar from Japan's National Center for Global Health & Medicine discuss new @CochraneLibrary Review of how community pharmacies might tackle antimicrobial resistance

#WordsOfToday "Don't travel with a baby when wearing light coloured clothing" Anon, 1991 #Travel #TravelAdvice #Baby #parenting.

#CochraneDaily In January 2025, the @CochraneLibrary published 19 new reviews, 4 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, 3 other updated reviews. #EvidenceSynthesis @cochranecollab.

#WordsOfToday "The hotter people made their shower with their gas boiler, the hotter they made the planet and the more showers that became storms and floods" Max, 2031 #ClimateEmergency #Weather.

#CochraneDaily As we enter the Year of the Snake, @CochraneLibrary CENTRAL contains the SNAKES randomised trial, which tested jelly snakes to reduce early postoperative vomiting in children.#HappyChineseNewYear #Snake #YearOfTheSnake.

#WordsOfToday "When praise is given to those who had the idea, those who helped them to implement it should not be forgotten." Byron #Halyard, 1988 #JustSayThanks #Thanks @GreatestQuotes #quotesdaily.

#CochraneDaily Just Published! Study found 230 #RiskofBias tools for health research, concluding that current tools addressed multiple constructs beyond risk of bias, with many using potentially misleading numerical scoring systems.#EvidenceSynthesis.

#WordsOfToday "When I think of the millions of years before my first cry and the millions of years after my last breath, I realise how small a drop I am in the oceans of time." Yehla Elwandle, 2021 #fate #mortality @SeffSaid @GreatestQuotes #quoteoftheday.

This week's reading for those wanting to know about delivering large randomised trials is Barbara Farrell's 1998 reflections on the importance of nature and nuture to their effective management #RandomisedTrials #EBHC #EBM @JamesLind1753 #NatureOrNuture

#CochraneDaily It was #WorldLeprosyDay yesterday and Cochrane has 3 reviews relevant to treatment of this condition, also called Hansen Disease. Read them at #leprosy #HansenDisease.

#WordsOfToday "The words spoken are important, not the mouth that said them." Kenmeina Kotoba, 1652 @GreatestQuotes @SeffSaid #Quotesdaily.

#CochraneDaily As storm Eowyn batters Ireland and the UK, Evidence Aid's summaries of systematic reviews relevant to #windstorms are available at #StormEowyn @RESCUEorg.

#WordsOfToday Try to read at least one book a month that introduces you to a new topic" Snelav Roht, 2023 #ReadABook @motivational .

There were no significant differences between the groups and the authors conclude that although expressive writing is pragmatic and accessible, further work is needed to establish a psychological tool that would benefit this under-researched population.

The 175 English-speaking recruits in Australia and New Zealand had had a fecal or urinary #ostomy and were randomly assigned to do an online self-compassion #expressivewriting exercise or a control expressive writing exercise.