Cochrane Library - latest issue now online

The latest edition (Issue 2, 2009) of the Cochrane Library is now available. Eight-nine new systematic reviews and 145 new review protocols had been added to the database. These include:

• Maternal positions and mobility during first stage labour
• Homeopathic medicines for adverse effects of cancer treatments
• Music for stress and anxiety reduction in coronary heart disease patients
• Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community
• Dental fillings for the treatment of caries in the primary dentition
• Surgery for obesity
• Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point P6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
• Statins for the prevention of dementia
• Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for pain relief in labour

Click here for a full update and summaries of key new reviews (PDF).

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