Palatable Drugs for Children

Safer drugs for children.

cancer patients, showing a high degree of selectivity and sensitivity, and it was the subject of a recent international workshop (Cancer Re-seai-ch, 39, 551-662, 1-979). The consensus of that meeting was that LAI testing offered a promising adjunct to currently available diagnostic and monitoring procedures in cancer patients, having the essential attributes of specificity and correlation with ...

Enhanced sensitivity to drugs of abuse and palatable foods following maternal overnutrition

Epidemiological studies have shown an association between maternal overnutrition and increased risk of the progeny for the development of obesity as well as psychiatric disorders. Animal studies have shown results regarding maternal high-fat diet (HFD) and a greater risk of the offspring to develop obesity. However, it still remains unknown whether maternal HFD can program the central reward sy...

Antidiarrhoeal drugs for acute diarrhoea in children.

Drugs in children

Children are not "little adults" but rather immature individuals whose bodies and organ functions are in a continuing state of development. More particularly, the newborn infant has to adapt very rapidly to a new environment by going through a series of rapid and continuous anatomical and physiological changes. It is not surprising, therefore, that the pharmacokinetics and toxicity of most drug...

Drugs and School Children

Longman, 50s. Dr. Wiener has done us several services. He has, to begin with, assembled in concise form a great deal of information about drugs: their derivation and constitution, their physical and mental effects, the problems they create or are alleged to create, together with an excellent bibliography and a survey of the various excited hypotheses about abuse and 'dependence'. Secondly, he h...