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By Carol Pearson
Washington
13 March 2007
 
watch Medication and Children

 
A major study finds that 80 percent of children in U.S. hospitals receive medication that has been tested and approved only for adults. This often leaves pediatricians to a potentially dangerous assumption that if a drug works for adults, it will also be safe for children.  VOA's Carol Pearson has more on the study and its implications.

When parents entrust1 their sick children to a hospital staff, Dr. Daniel Benjamin of Duke University says most parents are unaware2 of this disturbing fact. "Most of the time when we're treating children, we don't know if we have the right drug, how safe it is, and what the right dose is."

 
Dr. Daniel Benjamin
Dr. Benjamin says he thinks about this every time he prescribes a medication for a child. "Regularly, I worry, 'Is this product going to do more damage to this child?  Is this product going to do more harm than the disease is doing?' "

A study by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia concludes that nearly four out of five hospitalized children in the U.S. receive medications tested only for adults.

While the study only looked at medicine prescribed in hospitals, Dr. Samir Shah, the study's lead author says outside the hospital, the same is true: children receive the same medicines adults receive.

Another pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Peter Adamson, points out that children and adults can react to drugs much differently. "The changes in muscle, bone, water, protein, fat, all could impact what happens to a drug."

The study shows that the consequences can be serious or even deadly. Doctors often have no other choice but to prescribe these medications, especially for critically ill children. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to encourage pharmaceutical3 companies to increase the number of drugs tested for children. The authors of the children's study call for even more information to be gathered on medications that are commonly prescribed for children but not tested for them.


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1 entrust JoLxh     
v.信赖,信托,交托
参考例句:
  • I couldn't entrust my children to strangers.我不能把孩子交给陌生人照看。
  • They can be entrusted to solve major national problems.可以委托他们解决重大国家问题。
2 unaware Pl6w0     
a.不知道的,未意识到的
参考例句:
  • They were unaware that war was near. 他们不知道战争即将爆发。
  • I was unaware of the man's presence. 我没有察觉到那人在场。
3 pharmaceutical f30zR     
adj.药学的,药物的;药用的,药剂师的
参考例句:
  • She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
  • We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。

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