“We need to test drugs on children, as the only other options are to use unlicensed drugs or prescribe drugs that have been licensed for adults,” Sammons said. “But we feel that the small number of studies that reported having safety monitoring committees was unacceptable.”

Personally what I find unacceptable are Dr Sammons conclusions. In the first place these synthetic drugs have unpredictable side effects most of which are horrific and many of them documented as causing more disease complications than are solved.

We already have a number of alternative treatments that work,some of which are very ancient .. in other words the clinical trials were completed aeon’s ago .. we already know what is safe and what is not. Herbs elicit every known pharmacological response .. and I suspect many of which we have no knowledge.