Light modulation is an essential operation in photonics and optoelectronics. With existing
and emerging technologies increasingly demanding compact, efficient, fast and broadband …

Safety and efficacy data on many medicines used in children are surprisingly scarce. As a
result children are sometimes given ineffective medicines or medicines with unknown …

Children deserve medicines that are adapted to their needs. The need to include children in
drug development has been recognised increasingly over the past few decades. Legal and …

Background In the past two decades, many legislative and regulatory initiatives were taken
globally to improve drug use in children. However, children are still found to be prescribed …

Paediatric patients, particularly preterm neonates, present many pharmacological
challenges. Due to the difficulty in conducting clinical trials in these populations dosing …

Medication use in children represents 15–20% of total drug sales. More than 50% of
children receive at least one prescription medication a year. Despite this, few drugs have a …

Aim This study provided an overview of manipulating oral medicines given to hospitalised
children and evaluated this practice in two hospitals. It focused on the type of manipulation …

Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the use of off-label (OL) and unlicensed
(UL) medicines to hospitalised children in Norway, to add to the current knowledge on use of …

Antibiotics are a critically important part of paediatric medical care in low‐and middle‐
income countries (LMIC s), where infectious diseases are the leading cause of child …

Approximately 1.5 million neonates receive general anesthesia each year for a surgical
procedure. Despite this being an essential practice, a number of recent studies now indicate …