Cochrane is delighted to announce the introduction of a new, freely available set of learning resources for Knowledge Translation in Cochrane.

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Cochrane is pleased to announce that the Cochrane Library which provides high-quality, independently produced evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, has been redesigned and enhanced to improve user experience and functionality. 

A productive society is dependent upon the health and wellbeing of its citizens. Healthy cities, workplaces and environments provide the framework to support this, and evidence is required to underpin its development and evolution.

Health effects of sit-stand desks and interventions aimed to reduce sitting at work are still unproven.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD) develops evidence-informed guidance on effective actions to address all forms of malnutrition; establishes standards and harmonizes methodologies; and increases public awareness about the WHO policy recommendations.  WHO is Cochrane's largest external partner and we have been collaborating with  them to prioritize and produce systematic reviews that contribute to their nutrition-related guidelines. 

2017 was a year of organizational change and growth for Cochrane.Find out more about Cochrane’s key achievements during 2017, and the strides being made on our major Strategy to 2020 initiatives.

In May 2018, the  United States Food and Drug Administration implemented a set of rules requiring restaurants, supermarkets, and convenience stores with 20 or more locations to go public with the calorie counts for standard menu items.

Cochrane exists so that healthcare decisions get better.Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health. Many of our contributors are world leaders in their fields - medicine, health policy, research methodology, or consumer advocacy - and our groups are situated in some of the world's most respected academic and medical institutions.

High quality evidence shows that vertebroplasty does not provide more clinically important benefits than placebo but may cause people harm.