Post-marketing studies finding adverse events in drugs used in children

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA, 1997), designed to stimulate more drug safety studies in children, has resulted in more than 130 label changes since its inception nearly six years ago, according to researchers at Duke Children's Hospital. Their analysis appears in the September issue of Pediatrics.

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