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Does galantamine help people with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease and people with mild cognitive impairment?
There are many Cochrane Reviews of possible treatments for dementia. One of the earliest of these looked at the effects of a drug called galantamine, which is found in daffodil bulbs, and the review was updated in November 2024.
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What are the effects of interventions on sales of antimicrobial drugs without prescription in community pharmacies?
The Cochrane Collaboration has produced several systematic reviews of interventions focusing on the problem of antimicrobial resistance. In January 2025, these were added to with a new review about the role of community pharmacies and, in this podcast, Sadatoshi Matsuoka, talks with lead author Moe Moe Thandar from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Japan about this pressing issue.
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Are midwife continuity of care models versus other models of care for childbearing women better for women and their babies?
Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth has produced many reviews of interventions relevant to the organization and delivery of maternity care. In this podcast, two of the group’s researchers, Cristina Fernandez Turienzo and Hannah Rayment-Jones, midwives and senior research fellows at King’s College London in the UK, discuss their April 2024 update for one of these reviews, looking at the effects of midwife continuity of care models for childbearing women.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy plus standard care for first-episode and recent-onset psychosis
In its nearly 30 years, the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group produced more than 250 reviews. One of its last, published in March 2024, looked at cognitive behavioural therapy for first episode and recent-onset psychosis. Here’s lead author, Susanna Mayer from the Technical University of Munich in Germany to tell us more.
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How accurate are cognitive assessment tools, that are completed by people themselves, at detecting dementia?
There are more than 100 Cochrane reviews relevant to dementia, and these were added to in December 2024 with a new review of the accuracy of self-administered cognitive assessment tools for its detection. In this podcast, Podcast Editor for the Cochrane Library, Mike Clarke, talks with one of the authors, Fariha Naeem from Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland, about the review and its findings.
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