December 2008
Index
Mid-Year Meeting and Symposium in Copenhagen, April 2009In 2009, The Nordic Cochrane Centre will host the mid-year meetings of the Steering Group, the centre directors, and the executive group of co-ordinating editors... |
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Changes at the Norwegian BranchClaire Glenton has taken leave for a year from her position at Kunnskapssenteret and as Director of the Norwegian branch to work as a senior scientist at SINTEF Health Research in Oslo in the field of global health. Andy Oxman will be Acting Director while she is on leave. |
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New hope for Cochrane Library for all DanesIn our last newsletter, issue 12 December 2007, we described the dramatic impact the limited access in Denmark to the Cochrane Library had had on the usage. |
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Freiburg awards: best poster and Chris Silagy prizeTwo staff members from the Centre received special recognition at the Colloquium in Freiburg in October. |
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Author stipends and review summaries from the Norwegian EPOC satelliteThe Norwegian Satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group is based at the Norwegian branch in Oslo and supports review authors in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) and reviews relevant to LMIC, as well as supporting EPOC review authors in the Nordic area. |
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Nine nationalities meet over Centre lunchFive new staff members have joined the Nordic Cochrane Centre at the end of 2008. |
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Systematic Review of Acupuncture for PainMatias V. Madsen, Peter C. Gøtzsche and Asbjørn Hróbjartsson at the Nordic Cochrane Centre systematically reviewed three-armed randomised clinical trials involving true acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, or no acupuncture for pain. |
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Update of Cochrane Review of the Effect of PlaceboAsbjørn Hróbjartsson and Peter C. Gøtzsche at the Nordic Cochrane Centre have updated their Cochrane review of the effect of placebo. |
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Research challenges current practice of advising workers on lifting techniquesThe Cochrane Review on the effectiveness of training and lifting equipment for preventing back pain in lifting and handling by Kari-Pekka Martimo, Jos Verbeek, Jaro Karppinen, Andrea D Furlan, Esa-Pekka Takala,Paul Kuijer, Merja Jauhiainen and Eira Viikari-Juntura (CD005958) was also published as an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2008;336:429-31). |
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Research highlights, podcastsWe recorded 3 podcasts in 2008 on reviews published by researchers at The Nordic Cochrane Centre. |
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