`用途孩子當醫學試驗品』

孩子應該使用作為試驗品在臨床研究加速醫療突破，并且改進治療為他們，一位主導的專家說。

大約醫學的40%被規定對孩子在他們從未被測試。 為新出生嬰孩，圖上升到90百分之。

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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