CHILDRENS MEDICINES

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has released a detailed paper proposing that guidelines are drawn up for the development and application of medicines designed for use by children. It has suggested that a Paediatric Pharmacovigilance Guideline is written by the European Union's (EU) CPMP Pharmacovigilance Working Party, "to underpin" other strategies currently being considered by EU regulators. Issues that should be covered by the guidelines, said the paper, include data collection and management, the detection of ...


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