The European Medicines Agency: A Modern Robin Hood?
Many studies with a stated goal of advancing child health care in administratively-defined minors have no clinical value and may even harm young patients.
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Many studies with a stated goal of advancing child health care in administratively-defined minors have no clinical value and may even harm young patients.
Institutional review boards and ethics committees have seen it as their main task in the past few decades to protect children from questionable studies; however, they are faced with a new challenge with pediatric drug development.
Imposing the FDA on-label/off-label framework on administratively defined "children" resulted in a regulatory demand for pediatric studies that had no basis in clinical medicine, with the exception of the small group of preterm newborns.
Berlin has changed rapidly in the last 30 years, and it's difficult to remember what the city looked like when the Wall ran through it – here are some photo comparisons.
George shares happy memories of his formative years and wonders if the advancement of technology is denying youngsters a real childhood.