|Articles|April 1, 2008

A shot in the dark: Safety, efficacy, research lacking for pediatric medications

Pediatric dermatologist Elaine Siegfried, M.D., says that, about 80 percent of the time, she has to treat patients with drugs that have no FDA-approved indication or have never been formally studied in children.

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