It’s bad enough that doctors are over prescribing medications to young children, to read that they are also prescribing them drugs that are intended for adults makes me extremely angry. How do we allow doctors to prescribe any drug until extensive research has been conducted:
Children are being prescribed unlicensed medicines that could be causing harm, a report has warned.
The Government study is demanding an urgent investigation into the ‘unacceptable’ fact that almost a third of drugs given to sick children are officially approved for only adult use.
It warns of ‘a high number of drug errors’ in which children may be wrongly prescribed too much of a medicine because the doses are meant for adults.
Historically, pharmaceutical companies have not had an obligation to test medicines on youngsters. The law changed in 2007 and new drugs coming to market must now be tested on children before they can be used on them.
But this still means about 30 per cent of drugs prescribed to under-18s – and up to 95 per cent of drugs given to babies in intensive care – have never been tested on children.
It’s one of modern days big tragedies that doctors seem to be in bed with the big pharmaceutical companies.
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