Posted on 08/20/2003 6:53:10 AM PDT by bedolido
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Pediatricians are forced to engage in risky "trial-and-error" medicine when they give drugs to children because two-thirds of all drugs they routinely prescribe have never been adequately studied on kids, according to a study by Food and Drug Administration researchers to be published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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