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Cochrane comes to Hyderabad, India in September 2014: How can we best use this opportunity to influence the trajectory of health care in the region and globally?
Prathap Tharyan is Director of the South Asian Cochrane Centre (SACC), a longtime Cochrane contributor, and leads the team organizing this year’s Colloquium in Hyderabad, India. In this post he highlights some of the important themes and events of this not-to-be-missed conference. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - July 30, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane contributors Colloquium Evidence-based health care Low and middle income countries Source Type: blogs

Revisions to the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy: what do contributors need to know?
Lisa Bero, one of the Co-Chairs of the Cochrane Steering Group, and Cindy Farquhar, Managing Editor of the Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group and Co-Director of the New Zealand Cochrane Branch, have been closely involved with the recently completed revision of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy. In this blog post, they provide some general information about the policy, and recent changes for Cochrane contributors. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - July 2, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Current news Centres Cochrane contributors Cochrane Reviews Low and middle income countries Review groups Source Type: blogs

Is Wikipedia’s medical content really 90% wrong?
Anwesh Chatterjee is a pulmonologist in the United Kingdom and longtime Wikipedia editor. He is the primary author of Wikipedia’s lung cancer article – one of those criticized by Hasty et al. Robin M.T. Cooke is a peer-reviewed author with an interest in biomedical research, who collaborates with Wikipedia's medicine projects. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - June 23, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane Reviews Evidence-based health care Funding & Partnerships Media coverage Source Type: blogs

How may I help you? The future of Cochrane Training
Miranda Cumpston is Cochrane’s Senior Training Co-ordinator, and is based at the Australasian Cochrane Centre in Melbourne. Her background is in health policy and public health, and she has been working for Cochrane, in Canada and Australia, since 2004. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - June 10, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Centres Cochrane contributors Cochrane Reviews Consumer Network Fields Low and middle income countries Methods groups Review groups Training Source Type: blogs

Women, embrace the power of your pelvic floor!
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Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - May 27, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane Reviews Evidence-based health care Source Type: blogs

Cochrane Collaboration recruits talented Wikipedian In Residence
Jake Orlowitz is an experienced Wikipedia editor and administrator, and a member of the Wiki Project Med Foundation board. He has been working with Cochrane contributors for more than a year on taking forward a working partnership between Cochrane and Wikipedia. In this blog post, he looks at the latest developments in this collaborative venture. Cross-posted, with permission, from the Wikimedia Foundation Global Blog read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - May 13, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane Reviews Evidence-based health care Funding & Partnerships Source Type: blogs

Communicating uncertainty of results: From ‘No difference’ to estimation in 9 links
Toby Lasserson has been a Senior Editor at the Cochrane Editorial Unit (CEU) since 2010. In this blog post he reflects on the challenges of communicating statistical results and summarises a number of resources that might help authors report their findings in comprehensible and useful ways. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - May 1, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane Reviews Editorial Unit Evidence-based health care Source Type: blogs