Open AccessMedicine for children: The European initiative in the regulation of new drugs and clinical studies
Author(s) -
Zorica Živković
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh0712686z
Subject(s) - medicine , legislation , european union , inclusion (mineral) , european commission , family medicine , population , alternative medicine , commission , medical education , law , environmental health , social science , political science , pathology , international trade , sociology , business
Over the last two years, a special field named the "Medicine for Children" has been intensively developed. It is particularly significant for professionals, parents, but also for politicians and high-level officials of the European Union and its constitutive institutions: the European Health Commission and the European Council. The main idea is to make a drastic change in the attitude toward children, as the most vulnerable members of the society, namely to create the "Medicine for Children" instead of the "Medicine in Children". This short report presents the draft and ideas of the new European legislation on the application of drugs for children, performance of clinical studies in paediatric population and mandatory inclusion into the international network of scientific experts, clinical centres capable of performing studies and the already completed or ongoing clinical study registers.