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Deworming drugs for children: debating the evidence
The findings of an updated Cochrane Review on deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children provoked a debate on the evidence base and the implications for policy makers.
- July 11 Updated Cochrane Review published
- Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators, haemoglobin and school performance - The Cochrane Library - Taylor-Robinson - Wiley Online LibraryBackground The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating all school children at regular intervals with deworming drugs in areas...
News alert - Updated research on the effect of deworming drugs on nutrition and school performance in children - Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineAn update of the Cochrane Review - 'Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators,...
DFID - Community Programmes on Deworming School ChildrenCommunity Programmes on Deworming School Children- July 13 GiveWell blog reports findings
- New Cochrane Review of the Effectiveness of Deworming | The GiveWell BlogUpdate 07/20/12: Miguel and Kremer (and others) have responded to the characterization of their 2004 study by the updated Cochrane review...
- July 18 PLoS Speaking of Medicine blog post on the review
Should Deworming Policies in the Developing World be Reconsidered? | Speaking of MedicineThe World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends periodic drug treatment to deworm all children living in areas where soil-transm...
Cochrane's Paul Garner discusses Cochrane evidence on deworming children for intestinal helminths in PLoS medicine blog | The Cochrane CollaborationPaul Garner from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group discusses the newly updated Cochrane Review on community programmes to deworm chi...
#Cochrane editor Paul Garner blogs about community deworming programs in the PLoS "Speaking of Medicine" blog: ow.ly/cmQK2
Cochrane editor Paul Garner blogs about community deworming programs in the PLoS "Speaking of Medicine" blog: ow.ly/cmQK2The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends periodic drug treatment to deworm all children living in areas where soil-transm...
Deworming: not all it’s cracked up to be? By Paul Garner, Director of the Effective Healthcare Research Consortium. blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedi…- July 20 Other blogs respond
Cochrane's Incomplete and Misleading Summary of the Evidence on Deworming | Innovations for Poverty ActionSummary: The Cochrane Collaboration's recent summary of the evidence on treating school-age children for soil-transmitted intestinal worm...
Cochrane's incomplete and misleading summary of the evidence on deworming " The Berkeley BlogThe Cochrane Collaboration recently updated their review of the evidence on treating school-age children for soil-transmitted helminths (...
@fp2p Cochrane review gives a misleading summary of results on school attendance and deworming; our response here: bit.ly/OeRtSs- Roving Bandit: Does deworming really work?The latest Cochrane Collaboration review of the evidence on the impact of deworming on various outcomes has come out decidedly less than optimistic.
@rovingbandit - the @cochranecollab study is misleading on #education and #deworming. Our response here: bit.ly/OeRtSs
Why are biomedical folk stuck on insisting on baseline data in large RCTs? #deworming via IPA bit.ly/M0DcN1- Quick thoughts on the deworming brouhaha | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluationOur Friday links this week linked to a Givewell of a new Cochrane Review of the effectiveness of deworming. In response there was a discu...
It's the #education outcomes that matter for #deworming. Our response w/ @poverty_action @JPAL_Global: bit.ly/OeRtSs
- July 21-27: more debate on the debate
A response to @cochranecollab sys review on #education and #deworming: bit.ly/OeRtSs So why are we throwing so much $$ at sys revs?!- School programmes for deworming may not be that effective: Research | Asian TribuneLatest research, published on 11 July 2012, on the effect of deworming drugs on nutrition and school performance in children, commands ou...
