Bambini di uso del `come cavie della medicina'

I bambini dovrebbero essere usati come cavie nella ricerca clinica per accelerare le innovazioni mediche e migliorare loro il trattamento per, un esperto principale dice.

Circa 40 per cento delle medicine prescritte ai bambini non sono stati esaminati mai su loro. Per i bambini neonati, la figura aumenta a 90 %.

But scientists will only make real breakthroughs in children’s medicine if they include children in research programmes as well as adults, Prof John Warner, a consultant paediatrician, says today at the opening of the Paediatric Research Unit in central London, Britain’s first unit solely devoted to paediatric clinical research.

Most drug research is carried out on adults because it is ethically simpler to obtain consent from them. Critics complain that children are not merely small adults and that therapeutic and side effects can vary widely with age.

There is also a problem with dosing. Doctors are often forced to guess at what the child dose will be.

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