In evidence-based medicine (EBM), systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been widely applied in biological and medical research. Moreover, the most popular application of meta-analyses in this ...

Science headlines can be notoriously flip-floppy: One week something causes cancer, another week it protects against it. A cholesterol drug works. Oops, no it doesn ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the comparative clinical efficacy and acceptability of non-surgical brain stimulation for the acute treatment of major depressive episodes in adults. DESIGN Systematic review ...

Meta-analysis is an objective examination of published data from many studies of the same research topic identified through a literature search. Through the use of rigorous statistical methods, it can ...