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Epilepsy
Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
June 18th, 2007
Researchers have called for urgent studies into the long-term safety of newer antiepileptic drugs after discovering that the number given to children has increased significantly over recent years, reports the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. When the UK team studied antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) given to nearly 8,000 children over a 13-year period, they discovered that overall prescribing had risen by 19 per cent and there had been a five-fold increase in prescribing of newer AEDs. The results follow a report by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) which called for greater research into paediatric drugs for epilepsy. “EMEA...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-06-18)
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