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There have been several news articles this past week regarding a new study to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics: The Growing Impact of Pediatric Pharmaceutical Poisoning.
From U.S. News and World Report, September 16, 2011:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/treatment/articles/2011/09/16/accidental-medication-poisonings-in-kids-on-the-rise
Despite ongoing prevention efforts, a growing number of young children are being accidentally poisoned [...]
This past week there has been much news about an FDA released guidance document for manufacturers of liquid OTC drugs, calling for all such products to be packaged with calibrated dosing devices.
These recommendations follow from work done by a CDC led task force which resulted in the PROTECT initiative: http://www.cdc.gov/medicationsafety/protect/protect_Initiative.html.
From the Stanford School [...]
A study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Denver and reported by Bloomberg Businessweek: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/652405.html found that for children younger than 2 months, the prescribed dosage for narcotics was too high 40 percent of the time.
The study reviewed more than 50,000 prescriptions for narcotic-containing drugs given to kids up [...]
