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Latest research out today has found that psychological therapies, more commonly known as ‘talking treatments’, may help people who self-harm.Self-harm is intentional self-poisoning or self-injury.

A new Cochrane Review, published in the Cochrane Library today, suggests that yoga may have a beneficial effect on symptoms and quality of life in people with asthma, but effects on lung function and medication use are uncertain.

Guest post by Kevin Pottie, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada

We are delighted to announce today that the Cochrane Canada Centre has returned to McMaster University in Hamilton.

An updated Cochrane Review, published today in the Cochrane Library, says that the benefits of a variety of interventions intended to reduce sitting at work are very uncertain.

Cochrane Canada was again invited to speak to the dental hygiene students and staff at the Canadian National Institute of Health in Ottawa about Cochrane and its many resources.  When the students were polled at the beginning of the session, most of the thirty-three dental hygiene students had not heard about or used Cochrane Reviews or resources.

For more than 20 years, Cochrane has produced systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy. We are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based healthcare resources.This video is the story of how a team of Cochrane researchers in Canada are helping to change practice in the treatment of a common, yet potentially fatal childhood viral infection.

Professor Dr Jeremy Grimshaw, Director of Cochrane Canada, has been named to Thomson Reuters' "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015" list.

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