Addressing the barriers to pediatric drug development [electronic resource] : workshop summary / Cori Vanchieri, Adrienne Stith Butler, and Andrea Knutsen, rapporteurs ; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Decades of research have demonstrated that children do not respond to medications in the same way as adults. Differences between children and adults in the overall response to medications are due to profound anatomical, physiological, and developmental differences. Although few would argue that chil...

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