#CochraneDaily In December 2025, the #CochraneLibrary published 12 new reviews, 1 updated review where conclusions had changed, 1 other updated review and two reviews shown as being revised to correct errors, but one of these updated an earlier review with a new protocol, methods and authors.

#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 #QuotesDaily #GreatestQuotes #Honours #NYHonours #NewYearHonours

#CochraneDaily As of this week, the number of records retrieved by a simple search of PubMed for COVID-19 has passed through 500,000. Click here to see them all pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=covid-19 #COVID19 #PubMed #EBHC

#WordsOfToday "If your eyes, brain or body are tired from looking at this screen, look away now." Nun-Eul Swiseyo, 2020 #EyeStrain #ScreenTime #QuotesDaily

Learn about fair tests of treatment through history, in the #TrialsTuesday series from @jameslindlibrary.bsky.social #HistoryOfMedicine #EBM #EBHC #RCT

#WordsOfToday "As you get older, go to the toilet or washroom when you see one before going on any journey.” Thor Valen, 2025 #QuotesToLiveBy #TravelTips #DailyQuote

#CochraneDaily Cochrane CENTRAL contains report of baseline characteristics for participants in the #EPIPHANY trial, testing a multilevel intervention to reduce barriers to a healthy lifestyle to lower blood pressure among Black adults in rural USA www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/...

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 @cochrane.org Reviews #10: HONEY FOR ACUTE COUGH IN CHILDREN. Evidence suggests possible benefits for honey on cough symptoms and cough duration. Read the review for free at www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #CochraneLibrary #Honey #Cough

#WordsOfToday "When someone says that their personal public honour is accepted in recognition of the work of a group, they should #honour each person in the group by giving them public recognition" Lord Boxful, 1962 #QuotesDaily #NewYearHonours

#WordsOfToday "Is it the alcohol that brings a sense of cheer in the evening and one of fear in the morning?" Gartha Eagla, 2024 #DrinkWisely #Quotes #QuoteForToday

#CochraneDaily Among the CHRISTMAS trials in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is one that will look at the risk of intracranial bleeds due to intensive statin therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/... #Christmas #CochraneLibrary #RCT

#CochraneDaily Heads or tails? Calling heads and searching Cochrane reviews for the word finds 65 reviews, tails finds 18. #EvidenceSynthesis #Heads #Tails #CochraneLibrary

#WordsOfToday "If you force yourself to do one thing, once a week, you might find that all the other things are easier to do" Olly Sees, 2025 #QuotesToLiveBy #QuotesDaily

#CochraneDaily Sunday is World Meditation Day www.un.org/en/observanc.... Get ready by looking at the evidence in @cochrane.org reviews of #meditation, including this one from 2024 on its effects for preventing cardiovascular disease www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #CVD #EvidenceSynthesis

#WordsOfToday “Cumin, coriander, fenugreek and mustard seeds create a harmony of flavour for food, just as all the instruments in an orchestra are needed to create a harmony of sound for the ear" Nic Perouse, 2025 #Cooking #Curry #QuoteOfTheDay

#WordsOfToday “If someone displays an attitude that they believe the world and everyone in it is 'out to get them', they should not be surprised if people do become out to get them." Nic Perouse, 2025 #GreatestQuotes #DailyQuote

#CochraneDaily On #InternationalMigrantsDay www.un.org/en/observanc..., you can access the Evidence Aid summaries of >200 systematic reviews relevant to the health of refugees and asylum seekers at evidenceaid.org/evidence/hea... #AsylumSeekers #Refugees #Migrants #EvidenceAid @uk.rescue.org

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 @Cochrane.org Reviews #9 HEATED, HUMIDIFIED AIR FOR THE COMMON COLD. 5th update (2017) of review that began ~25 years ago, with 6 trials (387 participants), found insufficient evidence on potential benefits and harms www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday “Never do any painting wearing your good clothes. No matter how careful you are, you will get paint on them.” Anon, 2025 #WordsToLiveBy #Quotes #QuoteOfToday #Painting

#CochraneDaily What's hot and what's not in the Cochrane Library? 398 Cochrane reviews contain the word hot, while 656 contain the word cold. Both words are in 119 of these reviews. #Hot #Cold #EvidenceSynthesis #CochraneLibrary

#WordsOfToday "Avoiding a health check doesn't mean that you don't have a health problem, it means that you don't know you have one and can't start to fix it" Anon, 2025 #LookAfterYourself #GoodHealth #QuotesToLiveBy #QuotesDaily

#CochraneDaily Just published! Researchers used 54 @cochrane.org neonatal reviews to investigate why #neonatal evidence is mainly very low or low certainty and found that the main reasons were imprecision and risk of bias karger.com/neo/article/... #RiskOfBias

#WordsOfToday "Start the day with a review of the completed items from your ToDo list from yesterday to show yourself that you do get stuff done!" Alma Hami Qayimat, 1994 #GreatestQuotes #Inspiration #QuotesToLiveBy #WordsToLiveBy

#WordsOfToday “Try to read at least one book a month that introduces you to a new topic" Snelav Roht, 2023 #ReadABook #QuotesToLiveBy #QuotesDaily #DailyQuote

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 @cochrane.org Reviews #8 EXERCISE FOR LOW BACK PAIN Cochrane review from 2021 found that #exercise is probably effective for treating chronic low #backpain compared to no treatment, usual care or placebo www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday “Don't travel with a baby when wearing light coloured clothing" Anon, 1991 #Travel #TravelWithChildren #Baby #QuotesToLiveBy #WordsDaily #QuoteOfTheDay

#CochraneDaily On #InternationalMountainDay www.un.org/en/observanc... 4 #Cochrane Reviews cover preventing & treating high-altitude illness www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#CochraneDaily As we approach the end of 2025, have a read of this landmark 30-year old article providing empirical evidence of how poor allocation concealment was associated with #bias in the results of randomised trials jameslindlibrary.org/wp-data/uplo... @jama.com @jameslindlibrary.bsky.social

#WordsOfToday “Would you rather be the tiny cricket that fills the beach with chatter or the old large pine tree that they sit in, which lives and grows with no noise?" Jean Ferrat, 2022 #GreatestQuotes #Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay

#CochraneDaily On #ChristmaCardDay www.daysoftheyear.com/days/christm... if you’re a trialist thinking of sending #Christmas cards to participants in your trial to help retain them, think again. #SWAT 82 showed that they don’t work. Read more at www.bmj.com/content/375/... @streweek.bsky.social

#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 #Life #Mortality #Immortality #QuoteForToday #GreatestQuotes #WordsDaily #WordsMatter

#CochraneDaily Can a trial be #immaculate? That's the name for the IMMACULATE trial that tested remote post-discharge strategies for patients after an acute myocardial infarction. The record is in Cochrane CENTRAL www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/... #RCT #Acronyms #CochraneLibrary

#WordsOfToday “Smile. It is probably one of the cheapest things to do that brings most value, both to the receiver and the giver." John Barcroft 2007 #QuotesToLiveBy #QuoteOfToday #Smile #beKind #BeKindAlways

#WordsOfToday “I saw a book on how to stop procrastinating, if only I could stop procrastinating about whether to read it, I'd learn how to stop procrastinating about whether to read it." Ut Sette, 1994 #GreatestQuotes #QuotesToLiveBy #procrastination

#CochraneDaily In November 2025, the Cochrane Library published 12 new reviews, 3 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, 6 other updated reviews and one review that was revised to correct important errors @cochrane.org #CochraneLibrary #EvidenceSynthesis

#CochraneDaily On #InternationalCheetahDay internationalcheetahday.com @cochrane.org CENTRAL has ChEETAh randomised trial of routine glove & instrument change when closing abdominal wounds to prevent surgical site infection in low- and middle-income countries www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/...

#WordsOfToday "Do your feelings about things come from your gut, heart or brain?" Ubuchopho Bentliziyo, 2021 #Feelings #GreatestQuotes #DailyQuote #Quotations

#WordsOfToday “However clever you feel as a human, wouldn't you like to be able to scratch your ear with your foot, like I can?" Max 2023 (he/him, adolescent, dog) #Dog #QuotesDaily #WordsDaily

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews #7 LUBRICATING DROPS FOR CONTACT LENS DISCOMFORT Very low certainty evidence that drops help vs no treatment, but with little or no effect vs saline. Read/listen www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#CochraneDaily Just published! Read for free this account of the history of guidance and tools for assessing risk of bias in systematic reviews by Rafael Leite Pacheco and Rachel Riera from #SaoPaolo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RiskOfBias #EvidenceSynthesis #Cochrane

#WordsOfToday “The longer you delay planting the seeds, the longer you will wait to harvest the crop and eat the food" Hagear Beid, 2020 #QuotesToLiveBy #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily #Gardening

#WordsOfToday “I was lying in bed, with a fear of dread about the day ahead, so I imagined the smell of fresh bread and got up instead" Chris Ant 2004 #Inspiration #Bread #QuoteOfToday #DailyQuotes

#CochraneDaily On World AIDS Day (www.un.org/en/observanc...), find more than 100 relevant Cochrane Reviews with this search www.cochranelibrary.com/advanced-sea... #WorldAIDSday #AIDS #HIV #EvidenceSynthesis @cochrane.org

#WordsOfToday "He does his best thinking when he's taking me for a walk" Max (he/him, adolescent, dog) #Dog #Thinking #Inspiration #QuotesDaily #WordsDaily

#CochraneDaily Cochrane Collaboration output over three decades: Analysis (subject to verification) of Cochrane Database of #SystematicReviews since 1995 shows 3-yearly output of new & updated @cochrane.org reviews is similar to 25 years ago, with annual average of approximately 350 reviews

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 @cochrane.org Reviews 6: MUSIC FOR INSOMNIA. Review from 2022 shows that #music may improve sleep quality in adults with symptoms of #insomnia. Listen to audio summary at www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday "We should show our appreciation by thanking as many people as we can, every day" Count Mein, 2023 #JustSayThanks #ThankYou #Thanksgiving #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily #QuoteOfTheDay

#CochraneDaily Just published! Scoping review of 165 studies maps factors associated with citation rates and reasons for and extent of citation bias in the health literature www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #Bias #Citation @jclinepi.bsky.social

#WordsOfYesterday On #ShoppingReminderDay www.daysoftheyear.com/days/shoppin..., remember “Avoid the panic of choosing presents close to the day by making a gift chest into which you put things throughout the year" Thor Valens, 2022 #Thanksgiving #Christmas #Birthday #Gift #Presents #QuotesDaily

#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 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #QuotesDaily #GreatestQuotes