Clinical trials are supposed to test drugs and therapies that can save lives and improve health care. But they can also prove fatal. And in India, no less than 49 babies died in clinical trials during the last 2.5 half years.
Drug regulatory bodies such as the US FDA and the European Medicines Agency (EMeA) are [...]
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Guess what? When it comes to children’s medications, we are actually clueless. And ?we? includes not only us parents, but also the doctors, and the pharmaceutical companies themselves!!! This is according to a report in the Washington Post.
Although drug testing has been done rigorously during the past 2 decades, there is still a big gap [...]
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