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This public workshop provided a venue for stakeholders to discuss challenges and opportunities in pediatric drug development. Workshop participants considered dose formulation and bioavailability, as well as potential development models. The workshop was hosted by the National Academies Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation.
The workshop was held on June 13, 2006. Please visit our event page for additional information and meeting materials for the workshop.
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Addressing the Barriers to Pediatric Drug Development: Workshop Summary
Proceedings
·2008
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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