Newborn Baby Drug Test Fears
Posted on: Thursday, 2 February 2006, 06:00 CST
NINE out of 10 medicines used to treat newborn babies have not been properly tested, a report warned yesterday.
A House of Lords committee said most were just lower doses of medicines tested on adults.
Chairman Baroness Thomas of Walliswood called for urgent tests, saying: "This will be a concern for all parents.
"It cannot be right that 90 per cent of the medication given to newborn babies has only ever been tested on adults.
"Children are not simply small adults."
Peers said 50 per cent of all medicines given to children of all ages are similarly untested.
The European Commission is trying to set up EU-wide testing procedures to approve medicines for use by children.
Source: Daily Mirror
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