#WordsOfToday "If I was asked for a quote and couldn't think of one, I could just say this." Levu Matalu, 1924 #GreatestQuotes #GreatestNonQuotes #WordsDaily #QuotesDaily #QuoteOfToday

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews 4: COGNITIVE STIMULATION IN DEMENTIA. Cognitive stimulation, by engaging in activities and discussions, probably leads to small benefits in cognition for people with mild to moderate dementia Read it at www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#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 #GreatestQuotes #Quotations #QuotesDaily #CreditWhereCreditIsDue #Praise

#CochraneDaily It's #WorldPneumoniaDay (stoppneumonia.org/latest/world...) and there are dozens of @cochrane.org reviews, including one from 2022 on oral care measures for preventing nursing home‐acquired #pneumonia www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #EvidenceSynthesis #CareHomes

#CochraneDaily On World Origami Day (worldorigamiday.org/origami-day), there's a randomised trial for that! Search Cochrane CENTRAL to find several trials testing the potential benefits of #origami in the care of children. www.cochranelibrary.com #WorldOrigamiDay #RandomisdTrials #RCT #EBHC

#WordsOfToday "There should always be a good time to stand, stretch and smell the coffee." Puti Edami, 2007 #Coffee #StandUp #Stretch #Today #QuotesDaily

#WordsOtToday "If nothing else, be kind to others." Aga Lelei, 2022 #QuotesToLiveBy #GreatestQuotes #BeKind #BeKindAlways #Kind

#CochraneDaily In October 2025, the Cochrane Library published 15 new reviews, 4 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, 7 other updated reviews and one review that was given a new citation because of changes to correct errors @cochrane.org #EvidenceSynthesis #CochaneLibrary

#WordsOfToday “Always have some spare AA and AAA batteries in the kitchen" Eddy Thomson, 2020 #QuotesToLiveBy #QuotesDaily #BePrepared #Batteries

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews 3: GARLIC FOR THE COMMON COLD. @cochrane.org review from 2014 concluded "There is insufficient clinical trial evidence on the effects of garlic in preventing or treating the common cold." www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday "The last funeral I want to go to is my own, and the last one I will go to is my own." Pheta com Plee, 2007 #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily #Mortality

#CochraneDaily On this #sandwich day (www.daysoftheyear.com/days/sandwic...), celebrate the mega-trial called SANDWICH which recruited ~9000 children on mechanical ventilation in intensive care units. It's in Cochrane CENTRAL, with the full report free at www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/TCFX3817

#WordsOfToday "Maths of cooking: flour + water + heat = bread." Ric Etta, 1981 #Cooking #Cookery #Bread #GreatestQuotes #QuoteOfTheDay

#CochraneDaily Happy Halloween! A randomised trial in @cochrane.org CENTRAL with >1200 participants found that showing Trick or Treat children a picture of Michelle #Obama made them more likely to take fruit instead of candy www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/... #Halloween #RandomisedTrial #RCT

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 #Cochrane Reviews 2: REPLACING SALT WITH LOW-SODIUM SALT SUBSTITUTES (LSSS). Compared to regular #salt, LSSS probably reduce blood pressure, non‐fatal and fatal #cardiovascular events slightly in adults www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday "Do you think people grow more from criticism of what someone regards as their failings or from praise for their successes?" Rath Moladh, 2015 #QuotesDaily #BeKind #BeKindAlways

#CochraneDaily On World Stroke Day (www.world-stroke.org/world-stroke...), recent update of @cochrane.org review found moderate‐certainty evidence that remote ischaemic conditioning probably reduces recurrence of ischaemic #stroke slightly www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #WorldStrokeDay

#WordsOfToday “We should show our appreciation by thanking as many people as we can, every day" Count Mein, 2023 #QuotesToLiveBy #ThankYou #JustSayThanks #Appreciation #Countmein

#CochraneDaily Old and new words in the Cochrane Library: an all text search for the word "ancient" retrieves 80 Cochrane reviews, while "modern" retrieves 842 @cochrane.org #Words #Ancient #Modern #EvidenceSynthesis

#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 #Bread #QuoteForToday

#CochraneDaily Just published! Study of 202 Cochrane and 251 non-Cochrane reviews in neonatal medicine published in 2015-23 found that the Cochrane reviews were of significantly better methodological quality www.jpeds.com/article/S002... @paulfisherjpeds.bsky.social @cochrane.org #EvidenceSynthesis

Remind yourself of the value of the randomised trial on #WorldPolioDay through a history of the Salk #polio vaccine trial, which showed the vaccine's benefits 50 years ago journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Read more by Harry Marks in my library www.jameslindlibrary.org www.who.int/europe/campa...

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

#CochraneDaily On World Polio Day www.who.int/europe/campa..., read the @cochrane.org review with findings that could help decision‐makers optimise #polio #vaccination policies, reducing #inequity between countries www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #WorldPolioDay

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 @cochrane.org reviews #1. Freshly updated review with 9 included #RandomisedTrials concludes that evidence is very uncertain about effects of additional #work‐breaks on intensity of back and neck #pain or #productivity www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday "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 #Gifts #Christmas #ChristmasIsComing #QuotesDaily

#WordsOfToday “At the end of each day, relax and do nothing except wait for inspiration." Jean Ferrat, 2022 #Inspiration #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily #QuoteForToday

#CochraneDaily Just published! Systematic survey of simulation studies of randomised trials to identify optimal strategies for dealing with missing binary outcome data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #JEBM #RandomisedTrials #RCT #MissingData #RandomisedControlledTrials @guyattgh.bsky.social

#CochraneDaily Yesterday was World #Osteoporosis Day www.worldosteoporosisday.org. Among the many @cochrane.org reviews is one of the earliest, showing potential for exercise to be a safe and effective way to avert bone loss in postmenopausal women www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday “Doing a good deed a day is good for you, me and them." Brian O'Redmond, 1977 #GoodDeed #BeKind #BeKindAlways #QuoteForToday

#CochraneDaily On World Evidence Based Health Care Day, you will find the word "evidence" in 9078 of the 9498 full #Cochrane reviews and 1496 of the 2306 protocols www.cochranelibrary.com #EBM #EBHC #WorldEBHCDay @worldebhcday.bsky.social @cochrane.org

#WordsOfToday "Never save a good idea, do it" Denis O'Dell, 1969 #Beatles #GetBack #LetItBe #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily

#CochraneDaily Just published! Learn about the Doi plot and LFK index for assessing publication bias in a meta-analysis in this new article in the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. Read it free here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #JEBM #PublicationBias #Bias #EvidenceSynthesis

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

#CochraneDaily The day after #GlobalHandwashingDay globalhandwashing.org/global-handw... listen to the audio summary of the @cochrane.org review to learn more about research into the effects of interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#WordsOfToday "Work done voluntarily and for free might be the only sustainable work when the funder stops paying" Estsur Lemur, 2021 #Volunteer #QuoteForToday #QuotesDaily #Quotation

#CochraneDaily 30 years ago, on 15 October 1995, what became the Cochrane Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis Methods Group published its guidance on the practical methodology of this type of #EvidenceSynthesis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #IPDMA #Cochrane @cochrane.org

#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 #Contemplation #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily

#CochraneDaily On International Disaster Day (iddrr.undrr.org), remember that you can still find summaries for hundreds of relevant systematic reviews on the Evidence Aid website (evidenceaid.org/evidence/), now supported by the International Rescue Committee (www.rescue.org) #HealthEDRM #DRR

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

#CochraneDaily On World Sight Day (www.iapb.world/world_sight_...), the most recent review from Cochrane Eyes and Vision included 4 trials of antibiotic prophylaxis for corneal abrasion www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #LoveYourEyes #WorldSightDay @cochrane.org #CochraneLibrary

#WordsOfToday "Good understanding needs calm and clear speaking, not anger and shouting" Martin Roquebrune, 2023 #BeCalm #QuotesDaily #Roquebrune

#CochraneDaily Among the Cochrane reviews of motor neurone disease, one from 2023 found a complete lack of randomised trials of methods for informing people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease of their diagnosis www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #MND #ALS @cochrane.org

#WordsOfToday "Simply opening your hand turns a fist for fighting into a palm for greeting” Joe Muredach, 1971 #QuoteForToday #Quotes #Quotation #GreatestQuotes

#CochraneDaily Today's comparison of the frequency of words in the Cochrane Library finds 35 Cochrane reviews containing the word "biscuit", 15 containing "cake" and 5 with both #Biscuit #Cake #CochraneLibrary #EvidenceSynthesis

For this week's reading and learning: when you can find >210,000 records in PubMed with a simple search for "meta-analyses OR meta-analysis", read this article by Kay Dickersin and colleagues about searching for #meta-analyses 35 years ago www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EvidenceSynthesis

#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 www.nationaldaycalendar.com/internationa... #WorldSmileDay #Smile #GreatestQuotes

#CochraneDaily On #WorldCerebralPalsy Day (worldcpday.org), read this analysis of risk of bias assessments in 145 systematic reviews of interventions for cerebral palsy www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... @jclinepi.bsky.social #CerebralPalsy #RiskofBias #EvidenceSynthesis

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

#CochraneDaily In September 2025 the Cochrane Library published 10 new reviews, 5 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, 4 other updated reviews and one review that was given a new citation because of the changes needed to correct errors #CochraneLibrary #EvidenceSynthesis @cochrane.org