Editorials

From November 01, 2010 to November 30, 2010

Evidence Aid and the disaster response in Pakistan and Haiti

By: Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos
On: November 10, 2010, 14:09

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As if a natural disaster was not enough, Vibrio cholerae emerged to make the situation worse in post-flood Pakistan, and for the first time since the 1960s in post-earthquake Haiti. How do we, as researchers, policy-makers and human beings, respond to such situations? In response to the tsunami on 26 December 2004, concerned reviewers within The Cochrane Collaboration established Evidence Aid – an initiative that pools together systematic reviews that might be useful to disaster response agencies and decision-makers in crisis situations...

Evidence of the people, by the people, and for the people

By: Prathap Tharyan
On: November 10, 2010, 11:52

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At the recently concluded Colloquium of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations, The Cochrane Collaboration announced that from October 2010, 500 million internet users living in 42 countries with a gross national per capita income of US$ 1250–US$ 3500 will have free direct access to the resources in The Cochrane Library. This initiative is an expansion of the policy introduced in 2007 allowing free one-click access to The Cochrane Library in 67 countries with a gross national income per capita of less than US$ 1250...