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Category Archives: Children and young people

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.

October 9, 2019 0

Evidence for Everyday Health Choices

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.

June 26, 2019 0

Children and young people

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.

May 14, 2019 3

Children and young people

Wrist fractures in children: how are they best treated?

Lynda Ware looks at the latest Cochrane evidence on different treatments for wrist fractures in children.

January 18, 2019 0

Evidence for Everyday Health Choices

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.

December 13, 2018 0

Evidence for Everyday Health Choices

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.

July 20, 2018 3

Evidence for Everyday Nursing

Bronchiolitis: evidence for practice?

Sarah Chapman gives a round-up of Cochrane evidence on interventions for infants with bronchiolitis in this blog for nurses.

February 15, 2018 1

Respiratory

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.

October 20, 2017 0

Children and young people

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.

September 7, 2017 0

Children and young people

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

August 24, 2017 0

Evidence for Everyday Health Choices

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....

June 26, 2017 1

Children and young people

Recurrent abdominal pain in children: evidence and uncertainty

In this blog for trainee doctors, paediatrician and Cochrane Fellow Rufaro Ndokera looks at the Cochrane evidence on recurrent abdominal pain in children

May 25, 2017 1

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