PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 3 Supplement September 1999, pp. 582
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Our ability to provide safe and effective drug therapy for infants and children is often hampered by a lack of dosing information derived from careful, well-controlled trials and the limited database available concerning drug safety in this patient population. This problem was first articulated 30 years ago by Dr Harry Shirkey from the Children's Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He termed infants and children the "therapeutic orphans."
For the last 3 decades a small group of dedicated and highly motivated
pediatricians and