Opinion: FDA’s research guidance will help take guesswork out of drug dosing in newborns
More careful studies are needed to augment the limited information we have on how medicines given to newborns affect their long-term growth and brain development.
When we need to give medicine to newborns in our hospital, we often have to guess at the correct dose to give them. That’s a problem: give too little and the medicine might not work; give too much and it might cause harm. Dosing newborn babies with greater precision has been a challenge
