Drug testing in children.
Because relatively few drugs have been tested in children, doctors often must draw on their knowledge of a drug's effects on adults to determine whether to use it in children and, if so, what the proper dose should be. FDA hopes that new testing guidelines developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics will help overcome the widespread reluctance of manufacturers to perform drug studies in children.
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