Better child drug research call
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Researchers should do more to tailor drugs specifically for children, the government is set to say on Tuesday.
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Children in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more likely to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn why, federal researchers said Thursday.
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS  Contact: Neil Gussman of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, +1- 717-314-2494, neilg@chemheritage.org   PHILADELPHIA, June 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas R.
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Sept. 30, 2004âReacting to calls from pharmaceutical retailers, distributors and manufacturers, EPCglobal has added a new action group to specifically study the pharmaceutical industry
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If doctors hope to improve asthma  symptoms in the 6 million U.S. children with the disease, they  may first want to have a chat with their parents, U.S.  researchers said on Tuesday.
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Rising numbers of children are being prescribed antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs, research revealed. No pills are licensed for use by people under 16 years of age, but doctors can issue them where they feel it&#39;s clinically appropriate.
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SOARING numbers of children in the UK are being prescribed anti-depressants and other mind-altering drugs, research revealed today.
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ast week, a federal advisory panel urged regulators to warn parents that antidepressant drugs not only increase the risk of suicide in some children, but that most have a poor track record in curing their disease.
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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Children with cancer often get the  wrong dose of chemotherapy or are given the drug at the wrong  time, and many require treatment because of the errors, U.S.  researchers said on Friday.
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A second Food and Drug Administration advisory committee agreed that healthy children as young as 9 could be given the stimulant dextroamphetamine in an experiment, concurring with an ethics panel&#39;s recommendation last week.
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When children suffer life-threatening seizures, doctors have minutes to decide which of two drugs to use to try to save them &#151; with no good research on which works better.
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Description: In Capitol Hill hearings, lawmakers criticize drug manufacturers for failing to fully disclose data on the use of antidepressants by children, creating a misleading impression of the drugs&#39; safety and effectiveness.
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The discovery that antidepressants may increase suicidal tendencies in children  has prompted some lawmakers and physicians to ask if changes are needed to financial incentives given to drug makers for pediatric research.
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A consumer group and 35 doctors and scientists asked the federal government Thursday to convene an independent review of the science that led to new guidelines urging wider use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.
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Children taking antidepressant drugs may be at increased risk for suicidal behavior and thinking, and the government should require a "black box" warning label on the medications, an expert panel concluded Tuesday.
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A new Food and Drug Administration ethics panel said Friday the advancement of science outweighed the risks of giving a stimulant to healthy children as young as 9.