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Date Time How do you determine right medicine dosage for a child? What’s the right dosage of medication for children? Assistant professor Elke Krekels and her colleagues discovered that for some medicines, you can determine this quite simply. On 13 April Krekels received the TOP-Publication award during the annual spring meeting of the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmacy. With medicines, proper dosage is crucial. You cannot always give a child the same quantity as an adult. But for a lot of medicines, the best dosage for a child has never been investigated. ‘For a long time, people thought it was unethical to “experiment” with children,’ says Krekels. ‘As a result, we don’t always know what dose is safe and effective. In fact, every treatment became an experiment.’ Since the beginning of this century it has been compulsory to test new drugs also for their effect on children.

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