Medical Cannabis Helps Kids With Severe Epilepsy, But More Trials Needed, Says Israeli Study

The meta-analysis found that CBD is effective at decreasing the number of severe seizures in children with Dravet syndrome, a rare, drug-resistant epilepsy.

“Within this systematic review of these seven studies, we found that there was a 40 percent reduction in the number of epileptic seizures in children with refractory epilepsy,” Prof.

For their meta-analysis, Matok and his team screened thousands of studies involving patients 18 years and younger and honed in on seven studies with 486 patients.

It should be more studied on children so it can be considered evidence-based medicine and there can be more of a balance of risk vs.

“Whereas Pfizer and Moderna were able to conduct clinical trials for their COVID-19 vaccine on kids, few top-notch clinical trials exist for cannabis use in children.

Matok says his next project will be a “data-based study” with Israeli kids who have a license to use medical cannabis through the Ministry of Health.

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