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Most drugs never tested for safety in children - Pediatricians engage in "trial-and-error"
Boston Globe ^ | 08/20/03 | Christopher Rowland

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; drugs; fda; most; never; prescriptiondrugs; safety; tested

1 posted on 08/20/2003 6:53:10 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido
Sad story:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/08-25-2003/vo19no17_drugging_print.htm
2 posted on 08/20/2003 7:11:13 AM PDT by ladylib
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