When the children-are-not-small-adults and the children-are-therapeutic-orphans mantras became US law in 1997, there was broad social consensus that in medical treatment everything is different in children compared to adults. The […]
Several antidiabetic drugs are not FDA-approved in minors under 18y (“children”). Do they not work? They do. To understand the FDA reasons, we have to step back a bit. When […]
Humans and higher animals have a childhood, bacteria don’t. And only humans have a childhood formally defined by conventions and the law. Animals live by the laws of the jungle, […]
Being sad is a normal response to a loss or bad experience. But life goes on and you get over it in time. A persistent state of grief that has […]
Rheumatic diseases in minors are rare, in contrast to the common rheumatic diseases that that affect adults more and more as they get older. In contrast to cancer, chronic arthritides […]
Cancer, leukemia, and other malignancies are very rare in children. They came into the focus of medicine and research only when the general living conditions began improving, and research turned […]
Not long ago relatively little could be done against diseases. Nor did people know their cause. Today we know about bacteria, viruses, & more. Back then people prayed a lot, […]
The US recently approved COVID-19 vaccines in children 5 to 11-year-old, almost a year after in adults. Why the delay? It is based on the children-are-not-small-adults and children-are-therapeutic-orphans mantras that […]
Clinical studies evolved with modern drug development. When penicillin was produced industrially a first time during World War II, complicated studies were unnecessary. Patients with bacterial infections were literally snatched […]
