Your Child’s Medicine Probably Wasn’t Fully Vetted. Here’s Why.

Visual: Milos Dimic/E+ via Getty Images Most pharmaceuticals are developed and approved for use only in adults. Researchers are working to create change. BY FRIEDA KLOTZ MARK TURNER has worked in pediatrics for more than 30 years, and he’s tired of telling parents there’s nothing he can do for their children. Very few medicines are developed with young people in mind, he said. “It’s just very difficult, watching them be sick, watching babies die.” Turner is referring to the lack of research into how different medications perform in children. When drugs get approved, it’s usually on the basis of how they function … Continue reading Your Child’s Medicine Probably Wasn’t Fully Vetted. Here’s Why.