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The 26th Zheln summary, where I show how Zheln is replacing #PubMed. https://zheln.com/summary/2020/12/16/1/ #Health
The 27th Zheln summary, where I tell more about Zheln Records and Appraisals. https://zheln.com/summary/2020/12/19/2/ #Health #PubMed
The 29th #Zheln summary, when it’s running out of funds. https://zheln.com/summary/2020/12/26/2/
The 30th Anniversary #Zheln summary post. 🥳🎉🎄 https://zheln.com/summary/2020/12/30/1/ #Health #News
Zheln has proudly been accepted as an Evidence Ambassador for #WorldEBHCday 2021, so I would like to acknowledge and comment on this as well as cover the #infodemic in this special supplement. Also, some news about the future of #Zheln have been accumulating, so I am using this opportunity to share them. https://zheln.com/summary/2021/10/20/suppl/
I announce discontinuation of Zheln in its original form and announce the new concept of Zheln As Service that, hopefully, will allow me to reuse the principal method for Zheln in other initiatives. https://zheln.com/summary/2022/04/06/suppl/
When someone asks me what I do, and I reply with something like ‘I’m an evidence synthesis researcher,’ they are usually having a hard time understanding that. It need not be this way. In fact, knowledge synthesis is something everybody does every day of their lives. [Thread] 👇 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1617772138529959938.html
Eight months ago, an important study was out, with its results relevant for 200 million people, but went largerly unnoticed. Wut? Zheln finds out👇 Thread #1
The International Olympic Committee recognized beetroot as a potent performance booster, among other nitrate supplements. Everybody else claims beetroot is “powerful” stuff to take before exercise. Is it? Zheln collected and appraised current research using @WriteInStonePublic and found no ground for such optimism, even though there are data from dozens of trials that might come useful in specific contexts. Watch popular internet claims smash against evidence: https://zheln.com/thread/2023/12/28/1/
No evidence cranberry juice is helpful for urinary infections in pregnancy, multiple studies find.

There is a mild preventative effect among children and non-pregnant women with recurrent UTIs ­– but those findings are still provisional. Learn the evidence feat. a @WriteInStonePublic video bibliography.