In the latest edition of Nature, Cochrane Australia’s Julian Elliott and Tari Turner join colleagues from around the globe in calling for a greater focus on living evidence to inform research policy and practice.

Mindfulness has been growing in popularity across the globe over the past decade, and is increasingly the subject of scientific research into the benefits it may deliver. In 2020, six Monash medical students sought to better understand if and how mindfulness practice could help fellow medical students and junior doctors deal with the many stresses and demands of their studies and chosen profession.

Share your ideas about diversity and inclusion in Cochrane in our upcoming small group community consultation. We need your views and practical suggestions about what we can do to be more inclusive.

Cochrane contributors around the world continue to focus on understanding, treating and preventing COVID-19. Cochrane Australia is playing an active role in the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce and continues to collaborate in international efforts to understand, contain and stop the spread of coronavirus.

A new Cochrane Library Special Collection published today brings together reviews on evidence-based interventions to reduce stillbirth and improve care for families after stillbirth and in a subsequent pregnancy, identify women at increased risk of stillbirth, and improve knowledge of causes of and contributors to stillbirth.

It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago, lockdowns, quarantining and strict social distancing were completely unfamiliar to us. Yet in a matter of months, these measures came to define the daily life of people all over the world. For Coordinating Editor of Cochrane Consumers and Communication Dr Rebecca Ryan, this was a time when the professional and the personal began to intersect.

Cochrane Australia and the Australian Living Evidence Consortium have welcomed the announcement that the Victorian Government will invest in the ‘Living Evidence’ model to transform the way new research is used to improve outcomes for patients in Victoria and around Australia.