Considering the Patient in Pediatric Drug Development

How Good Intentions Turned Into Harm
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-12-823888-2
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Considering the Patient in Pediatric Drug Development: How Good Intentions Turned into Harm addresses a fundamental challenge in drug development and healthcare for young patients. In clinical trials and clinical practice, the term "children" is used ambiguously to confer physiological characteristics to a chronological age limit, which in reality does not exist. This book outlines why the United States (US) and European Union's (EU) regulatory authorities, pediatric academia, and the pharmaceutical industry demand, support and perform pediatric drug studies, along with the key flaws of this demand that blurs the different administrative and physiological meanings of the term "child."

In addition, the book covers why most pediatric regulatory studies lack medical sense and many even harm young patients and the conflicts of interest behind pediatric drug studies. It includes relevant information about the maturation of the human body regarding absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of food and drugs as well as key differences between newborns, infants, older children and adolescents.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Pharmazeutische Technologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Pharmaindustrie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rumpelstiltskin and the miller's daughterConclusion and outlook Introduction Abbreviations and technical explanations Background 1. The process of modern drug development and the challenge of young patients 2. US and EU pediatric legislation 3. A paradigm shift 4. Introduction: specific disease areas 4.1 Tissue-engineered products (TEPs), advanced medicinal4.2 Suicide, depression, and mental disorders in young4.3 Cancer and malignancies in young patients4.4 Chronic arthritis in young and adult patients, and "Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis� (JIA)4.5 Diabetes4.6 Allergies and allergen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT) in young patients4.7 Epilepsy4.8 Multiple sclerosis4.9 Atopic dermatitis and psoriasis4.10 Cystic fibrosis4.11 Vaccines and antiinfectives5. Neonatology 6. Challenges at the interface of science, drug development, and drug approval beyond specific disease areas 6.1 The on-label/off-label framework in adults and young patients6.2 Developmental pharmacology and the globalization of the children-are-therapeutic-orphans mantra6.3 Extrapolation6.4 Daily deceit in "pediatric� studies6.5 Myths in today's medical world and "pediatric� studies7. Juvenile animal studies8. Child-friendly formulations: tablets, quick-dissolving formulations, liquids, and more9. What do young patients really need?