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have been studied and labeled for pediatric use. The
Pediatric Drug Testing
pediatric research that has been done includes some
frightening results: of the older drugs just recently being
studied in children, 87% were being improperly
prescribed. Children were getting medicine that didn’t
Harry Shirkey, a medical practitioner, coined the term
work at all, were being underdosed, were being
“therapeutic orphans” over 40 years ago to describe
overdosed, or were being exposed to some possibly
how children are overlooked in medical research; his deadly side-effects.
Despite the best efforts of the American Academy
Dr. Dianne Murphy of the FDA’s Office of Pediatric
Therapeutics had this to say, “We found out that you
Pediatrics (AAP) and the Federal Drug Administration
can’t predict how kids are going to handle things.” The
problem is that once a medication has been approved
for use in adults, it can legally be prescribed to anyone
Guesstimating Medicine
for any reason; despite the lack of pediatric testing or
The fact is that the majority of drugs given to children
have never been tested specifically for them.
Physicians are prescribing drugs based on a “best
guess” as to the dosage, efficacy and even safety.
It’s becoming clearer to federal regulators and
physicians alike that children are not just “small adults”.
With their bodies in different stages of development,
they process medication differently: sometimes faster,
sometimes slower and sometimes turning it into poison.
Their body chemistry has not fully matured and yet
adult drugs are being prescribed to children on a
Dr. Joseph M. Wiley, Chief of Pediatrics at Sinai
Off-Label Prescribing
Hospital in Baltimore says, “If you extrapolate from an
adult dose to a pediatric dose, you may be right …you
The most recent research lists the following top ten
drugs being prescribed to children without proper
labeling: Albuterol, Phenergan, Ampicillin, Auralgan, Lotison, Prozac, Intal, Zoloft, Ritalin and alupent syrup.
The Path to Pediatric Testing
This common practice of prescribing medicine to
The road to pediatric drug testing has been a rocky
children that has only been tested and labeled for adult
one. Nobody wants to use children as guinea pigs, but
use is called “off-label prescribing” and it is done by
the problem remains that drugs are being given to
physicians everyday. A recent study published in the
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent medicine
showed that off-label drugs were used in nearly 80% of
The FDA understands that giving medications to
children for which there is only adult data available
could harm children, considering the fact that they have
What needs to be understood is that “off-label” doesn’t
dosing concerns and side-effect risks that differ from
just mean it hasn’t been properly tested on children,
adults. Their latest legislation has made some headway
in the battle against the lack of proper labeling; yet it
still fails to completely overcome the absence of
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E
research, particularly in the older medications.
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This year, the Government Accountability Office said
Page 2 Questions to Ask Your Pediatrician
that only one-third of the drugs prescribed for children
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but additionally that it may be prescribed for a purpose
Many parents report an improvement in their child’s
quality of life after beginning routine, Family Wellness
Chiropractic care. A healthy central nervous system
Dr. Murphy says that there are about 200 older drugs
results in a healthier and stronger immune system,
that have been studied in children, but new products
which could mean less prescription drugs or other
come on the market all the time and their studies, while
underway, will take time to complete. That means a lot
of untested medications are made available to doctors
So, take a moment today to call your Family Wellness
Chiropractor and schedule a Chiropractic screening for
The Consequences of Off-Label Prescribing
In hospitals and medical offices, pediatricians write off-
Questions to Ask Your Pediatrician
label prescriptions everyday with the best of intentions.
They make an educated guess about which drug to
Before accepting a prescription from your pediatrician,
prescribe and what would be an appropriate dosage for
be sure to ask the following important questions and
a child of this particular weight and age, hoping they’re
then thoughtfully consider whether or not to give your
right. The problem with this practice is that the children
• Would a wait-and-watch approach be advisable in
• Worsening of the original complaint
• Is this the only treatment available or do I have
options that don’t include drug therapy?
• What are the side-effects of this drug?
Unfortunately, the actual facts in this matter have been
• Has the drug been tested for pediatric use?
difficult to determine. The British Pediatric Surveillance
• Is this the use for which it was intended or are you
Unit believes this could be due to many factors,
including a reluctance to report, even in an anonymous
way, the number of deaths due to off-label prescribing
• Can we begin with a smaller dosage and then
of drugs to children. However, the European Medicines
Agency believes that there is sufficient evidence that
harm actually occurs and is under-reported.
What it comes down to is whether a pediatrician’s “best
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guess” as to dosage and efficacy of a drug is going to dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10001
be good enough for parents; and whether they should
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be accepting, in blind faith, every prescription written.
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