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AccuDial(R) Pharmaceutical Solves OTC Dosing Errors for Children's Liquid Medications

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 26th, 2010

2010 DEC 26 -- The national media keeps ringing the alarm and posting new stories on the disturbing results of the NYU one-year research study on pediatric dosing instructions on liquid medication, which is reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association's December issue. The results are shocking. An intense review of 200 of the top children's liquid medications, found inconsistencies across all the medications, with the vast majority having a problem.(1)

Researchers, under the direction of Dr. H. Shonna Yin, assistant professor of pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine, found that 25 percent of the over-the-counter liquid medications don't...

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