Essential medicines for children

Essential Medicines for Children: An Endocrine Perspective

essential medicines for children: an endocrine perspective

Essential medicines for children in Armenia.

BACKGROUND Drug therapy plays a key role in pediatrics. Effective treatment in pediatric practice means that medicines should be both effective and safe for children. However, there is not enough data on effectiveness and safety of medicines for children due to small number of clinical trials [1]. Access to medicines for children remains a serious problem worldwide [2]. The World Health Organiz...

Essential medicines for children: an endocrine perspective.

Dear Editor, The emergence of endocrine disease has created significant challenges for healthcare policy-makers and payers across the world. Policy-makers have to ensure availability of drugs used for various endocrinopathies. One way in which this is facilitated is through the World Health Organization (WHO) List of Essential Medicines (LEM). The LEM aims to cover the basic pharmaceutical need...

WHO to launch first essential medicines list for children.