Keep up with the evidence while you commute, exercise, or sit at your computer

The Cochrane Collaboration is a highly regarded independent organization that conducts systematic reviews of healthcare interventions to provide evidence for clinical decisions. Now they offer audio summaries of their reviews that you can listen to from your computer, or by downloading the mp3 file to your portable player or subscribing to the podcast. The audio summaries generally consist of discussion by the review's authors and are a few minutes in length.

Himmelfarb offers the complete Cochrane reviews through OVID/MEDLINE and directly from the Cochrane Library, but we wanted to highlight the audio summaries available from the Cochrane Collaboration. Either format will help you learn about the latest information in treating and diagnosing specific conditions and improve your understanding of medical evidence and how it's used to reach conclusions.

Recent audio summaries include:

• Hawthorn extract for treating chronic heart failure
• Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections
• Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of MRSA in nursing homes for older people