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Children and young people
Illustrating mental health topics: how can we do this well? A Cochrane tweetchat
Join @CochraneUK and @Cochrane_CCMD for a tweetchat on illustrating mental health topics, on Wednesday 12th February 2020
Young Minds Matter: towards better evidence – a special Cochrane blog series
Introducing a special series of blogs on children and young people’s mental health, #YoungMindsMatter, and the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Children and Young People Satellite
Suicide prevention: towards better evidence
In this blog for World Mental Health Day 2019, Jessica Hendon, the Managing Editor of Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group (CCMD), highlights the group's ongoing work to bring together the best evidence on suicide prevention and self-harm.
Chronic pain in children and adolescents: is there evidence that drugs work?
Pain researcher Emma Fisher looks at the evidence on the benefits and harms of painkilling drugs for children and teens with chronic pain.
Supporting children and young people’s mental health: a call for change
Emily Chapman calls for better understanding and support for children and young people with mental health difficulties.
Wet cough in children: making choices about treatment
GP Robert Walton looks at Cochrane evidence on antibiotics for children with 'wet cough' and explains what might help you decide what to do when your child has a cough that does not go away quickly.
Honey for cough in children: can it help?
Honey for cough? Cochrane UK's Senior Fellow in General Practice, Lynda Ware, looks into honey and at the latest evidence.
Videolaryngoscopy: watch this space
In a blog for trainees, Faro Ndokera looks at evidence on videolaryngoscopy as compared to direct laryngoscopy in three patient groups.
Later school start times: better for students’ education, health and wellbeing?
Emma Plugge looks at the evidence on later school start times for supporting students' education and their health and wellbeing.
Vitamin A supplementation for children: has the WHO got it right?
Sarah Rayfield, Speciality Registrar in Public Health, looks at the latest evidence on vitamin A supplementation in children living in low and middle income countries
What’s the best way for children to lose weight? Here’s what the research says
An increasing number of children and adolescents across the world are too heavy for their age, height and sex. Fortunately, new evidence reveals that there are proven, effective ways to tackle overweight and obesity in the young. Two reviews, published today, show that combinations of diet, exercise and behavioural change produce small but important reductions […]