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2 unusual facts about Cochrane Collaboration


A-type proanthocyanidin

A Cochrane Collaboration Review of the body of clinical literature concluded that "there is some evidence to recommend cranberry juice for the prevention of UTIs in women with symptomatic UTIs. The large number of dropouts/withdrawals from some of the trials, however, indicates that cranberry juice may not be acceptable over long periods of time".

Cochrane Collaboration

It is funded by the Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, UK (via the British DFID and the International Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Indiam the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group (via the Department of Health, UK and the University of Nottingham), and the World Health Organization's Clinical Trials in Children group.


PLOS Medicine

In April 2012, PLOS Medicine published an article by three researchers who were involved in ongoing updates of a Cochrane Collaboration review of neuraminidase inhibitors for treating influenza, describing their experience of trying to gain access to clinical study reports for the antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from the drug's manufacturer Roche.


see also

Archibald Cochrane

Archie Cochrane (1909–1988), British epidemiologist; namesake of the Cochrane Collaboration