Ministers order child medicine safety review
By Severin Carrell
15 August 2004
Drugs companies will be told by health ministers this week to make their medicines safer for children because of fears that many widely used pills have not been properly tested.
Health experts have recently stepped up warnings that children may be wrongly prescribed with drugs, including antibiotics, painkillers, anti-depressants and asthma treatments, because they are rarely tested for use on under-16s.
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