Majority of Drugs for Children Tested in Adults

Doctors often have little choice but to prescribe medicine for children that have been developed solely for adults. An article by pediatrician Alexander Cvetkovich-Munta?ola highlights the problems associated with a "one size fits all" attitude in drug trials.

He writes that 70 percent of the medicines given to children have only been tested in adults. This is despite the fact that kids have smaller airways, less protective muscle around their organs, greater body to surface area to body mass ratio, along with a higher metabolic rate, lower blood pres