Links

• A clear and comprehensive website on children and clinical studies can be found here. Provides information if you are getting involved as a parent or a child in a clinical study on children.
   
• TEDDY (Task-force in Europe for Drug Development for the Young). The overall aim of TEDDY is promoting the availability of safe and effective medicines for children in Europe by integrating existing expertises and good practices, as well as stimulating further developments.
   
• The NIHR Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) has been created to improve the co-ordination, speed and quality of randomised controlled trials and other well designed studies of medicines for children and adolescents, including those for prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
   
  • the Dutch Medicines for Children Research Network can be found at www.mcrn.nl 
     
• The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has created a section on their website about Medicines for Children to provide access to all information relating to the Agency's work in the area of paediatric medicines. It will be updated regularly as new information becomes available.