As a first treatment for someone with a rare white blood cell cancer (MTCL), giving someone stem cells from another person (alloSCT) rather than their own stem cells (autoSCT) may make little or no ...

When full-term or near-term babies need help to start breathing at birth, using normal air instead of extra oxygen may reduce the risk of death before leaving hospital. However, we cannot be certain ...

Lumbosacral radicular pain, often referred to as sciatica, is a type of pain that arises from irritation or inflammation of a low back spinal nerve. People typically experience pain radiating down the ...

• Electronic and robotic devices plus physiotherapy probably help people walk independently again after a stroke. They may particularly benefit people in the first three months after a stroke. • We ...

Rosacea is a common skin condition causing flushing, redness, red pimples and pustules on the face, and should not be confused with acne. Dilated blood vessels may appear near the surface of the skin ...

Knee replacement surgery is common for the management of arthritis but can cause knee stiffness. Knee stiffness can make it difficult to perform certain activities including standing up from a seated ...

Cochrane authors reviewed the evidence on the effectiveness and safety of exercise in women with primary dysmenorrhoea (period pain). We wanted to know whether using exercise was better than receiving ...

At least one-third of community-dwelling people over 65 years of age fall each year. Exercises that target balance, gait and muscle strength have previously been found to prevent falls in these people ...

Acupuncture might be able to provide short-term relief from tennis elbow, but more research is needed. This review is one in a series of reviews of interventions for lateral elbow pain. Lateral elbow ...

The World Health Organization recommends that infants should be breastfed exclusively until six months of age with breastfeeding continuing as an important part of the infant’s diet until he or she is ...

Does shock wave therapy work to treat tennis elbow and is it safe? To answer this question, scientists analyzed 9 studies testing over 1000 people who had tennis elbow. Most people had pain for a long ...

This review assessed the effects of listening to music on insomnia (sleep problems) in adults and the impact of factors that may influence the effect. We found a beneficial effect of music on sleep ...