title: Developing drugs for children and the adjustment of medication-is it a new challenge or an adaptation of past ideas?
abstract: Nowadays the adjustment of medication for each patient is at the center of health strategy. Children can be considered as specific targets with their own specificities. In the oral route field some examples of drugs especially adapted to children can be found. Design is introduced in drug formulation to offer a better choice of products and now, children can be considered as partners in their own treatment. Enhanced comprehension of children's requirements can also lead to creation of drugs that improve compliance.
authors.affiliation: University Clermont 1, UFR Pharmacie, Biopharmaceutical Department, 28, Place H. Dunant, B.P. 38, F-63001 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Pascale.Gauthier@u-clermont1.fr.
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.affiliation: University Clermont 1, UFR Pharmacie, Biopharmaceutical Department, 28, Place H. Dunant, B.P. 38, F-63001 Clermont-Ferrand, France. J-Michel.CARDOT@u-clermont1.fr.
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cardot