Medicines for children and pediatric care - an overview

• In: BPP/BPS Joint Symposium: Getting Medicines Right for Children on Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 14:00-17:00
• At: New Orleans (USA) (2004)
• Type: Presentation
• By: NUNN, Tony (Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, Department of Pharmacy, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
• Abstract:

  More than thirty years ago children were described by the American paediatrician and pharmacist Harry Shirkey as 'therapeutic orphans'. This presentation reviews the current situation, looks to the future and provides an introduction to topics to be examined by other speakers.
  
  
  
  Shirkey was referring to the lack of appropriate labeled medicines..

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