An American Academy of Pediatrics study looked at how to prevent dosing errors. — -- More than 80 percent of parents have made at least one dosing error when ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over the past 5 years, several studies have been published describing how oral liquid drug dosing devices and ...

There is now a new medication dosing system for county Emergency Medical Services (EMS), which prevents medication dosing errors in children, announced the Emergency Medical Services Injury Prevention ...

Children get sick and injured no matter how well adults protect them. It's natural to want to ease their discomfort when they're not feeling well. Acetaminophen, commonly known by the brand name ...

Not too much and not too little: the dosage of drugs must be optimally adjusted for general anesthesia. This is no easy task, especially for pediatric patients. A pilot study now shows that breath ...

Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration will meet Tuesday to discuss how to make certain pain relievers safer for babies and children. Government advisors are poised to address two problems when ...

Zyrtec can be given to children to treat allergy symptoms, but it may cause mild side effects like drowsiness and dry mouth.

Augmentin (amoxicillin/clavulanate potassium) is a brand-name drug prescribed for specific bacterial infections in adults and children. Augmentin comes as an oral ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(3):283-284. Pediatric patients are not simply 'little adults'. This mantra can be echoed throughout the entire discipline of pediatric medicine, where differences ...