Pros and Cons of Giving Adult Drugs to Children
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The attention-deficit generation has been supplanted by the bipolar generation, we learn in Tuesday nightâs âFrontlineâ on PBS.
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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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Boys who were repeatedly exposed to cocaine while in their mother's womb are more likely than girls or non-exposed children to be hyperactive or have other problem behaviors at six or seven years of age, new study findings show.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - U.S. health advisers considered on Thursday if over-the-counter cough and cold medicines should still be sold for young children, as pediatricians argued the drugs are dangerous and do not work.
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Children as young as 2 who suffer from arthritis can be treated with Celebrex , but to ensure the painkiller doesn't put them at later risk for heart attacks, their health should be tracked for decades, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said yesterday.
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Medicines for young children often contain additives banned from food for under-threes, research shows.
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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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Kids who enter puberty early are more likely to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol and marijuana than those who physically mature later, mostly because their window of opportunity for experimentation is wider.
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Teen drug users know better than to cross paths with police officers walking the beat or school principals roaming the hallways. Now there's a new enemy in the generational war on drugs: drug testing-parents.
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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Soaring numbers of children in the UK are being prescribed anti-depressants and other mind-altering drugs, research has revealed. No antidepressants are licensed for use in children under 16, but doctors can
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MONDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Parents are largely unaware of their children's alcohol and drug use, new research says.
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WASHINGTON - All drugs used to treat depressed children should carry a "black box" warning of the antidepressants' link to increased suicidal thoughts and actions, says a panel of federal advisers.    The warning, among the strongest in the Food and Drug Administration's arsenal, should reach doctors no matter how they get drug information and would extend to drug advertising directed at patients...
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WASHINGTON -- Cold and cough medicines recently pulled from sale for infants and toddlers shouldn't be given to children as old as 5, either, pediatricians told government health advisers Thursday.
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More children between the ages of 11 and 15 years are reporting trying drugs such as cannabis at least once, a government survey showed.
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Doctors have long struggled with how best to treat small children with drugs and medical devices that are mostly designed, tested, and approved for use by adults.
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Cold and cough medicines given to infants and toddlers work no better than dummy pills and can be dangerous, pediatricians seeking to curb their use told government health advisers Thursday.