Long-time women's health advocate and  the Canadian Women's Health Network founding Executive Director, Madeline Boscoe, was awarded the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case. For over 30 years, Madeline Boscoe has been a voice for Canadian women's health as a public health nurse, a researcher, an educator and an advocate. 

Oxford, UK (Oct. 5, 2011) -- An international non-profit organisation committed to providing the most reliable evidence of the benefits and harms of healthcare interventions has released a statement calling for free access to all data from all clinical trials in order to provide the best care for patients globally.

Cochrane contributors are smiling all over the world with news of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews’ (CDSR) impact factor (IF) rising again in 2010 to 6.186. The CDSR’s IF has risen an average of 10 per cent over the past four years.

The WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development has announced the launch of the WHO electronic Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA), an online catalogue of interventions addressing different forms of malnutrition.

St. John's, NL (August 22, 2011) - Today the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health announced Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), a transformative research initiative that places patients at the centre of health care . . . more.

Dear Public Health Professional: If you work or study in the area of public health in Canada, then we would like to hear from you.  

Cochrane author Dr Charles Shey Wiysonge speaks to Canadian Medical Magazine, L’actualité médicale about The Cochrane Collaboration's recently formed partnership with the World Health Organization. Read the full article (in French) here.

We are pleased to announce that one of our esteemed colleagues and supporters, Dr Jill Hayden has been awarded the CCRF DalhousieUniversityProfessorship in Epidemiology.This Research Professorship is funded by a partnership between Dalhousie University and CCRF and builds on CCRF’s research capacity program which establishes Research Chairs and Professorships in universities across Canada. Dr Hayden takes up this new CCRF Professorship in the Faculty of Medicine as of 1 July 2011.

We are pleased to announce that Cochrane Canada, and Dr Jeremy Grimshaw in particular, has taken on another substantial role within The Cochrane Collaboration by agreeing to be the Reference Cochrane Centre for the Consumer Network. Dr Grimshaw will serve as the Reference Centre Director.

Check out some of these Cochrane Reviews concerning cystic fibrosis:Inhaled antibiotics for long-term therapy in cystic fibrosisMacrolide antibiotics for cystic fibrosis