International "Course for health care guidelines developers on treatments of rare diseases" The course will take place on Febraury 6-7, 2016 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena (Italy). The application is now open! Please refer to this link for the course programme and for further information:

Welcome to Cochrane Trainers' Week!Cochrane Trainers' Week is a virtual conference happening from April 18 – 22 and is a series of free online events open to everyone across the Trainers’ Network and beyond.   There is a variety of creative and interactive events happening across the week, giving Cochrane's Trainers an opportunity to learn, and to learn from each other.  

https://colloquium.cochrane.org/It’s time to tell the world about all the exciting things you’ve been doing. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics relating to systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, evidence-based health care and the work of Cochrane.

It is with sadness that we write to inform the Cochrane community of the death of Professor Andrew Herxheimer - doctor, writer, editor, lecturer, campaigner, colleague, and friend – a man for whom many of us had great affection. He was 90 years old. Our thoughts and condolences are with Andrew’s family, friends, and colleagues in the UK and across the world.

Are you a person with expertise and/or interest on the subject and/or expressed interest in participating?The MacGRADE Centre and

Covidence is Cochrane’s new online systematic review production platform, and was selected by Cochrane to become the standard platform for Cochrane Reviews.

As part of the RARE-bestpractices project (www.rarebestpractices.eu), an international course was held fo

International "Course for health care guidelines developers on treatments of rare diseases" The course will take place on Febraury 10-12, 2016 at the IRCCS  Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan (Italy) The application is now open! Please refer to this link for the course programme and for further information:

Cochrane Colloquium 2015 will be held in Vienna, Austria - October 3rd to 7th.

It's time for school children to learn about clinical researchWe will all benefit from more knowledge!