Re: Re: The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act

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It seems that this managed to slip by the "public radar", if there indeed is one. I hate it here too, in Ontario, when our government is using our tax dollars to fund various dubious vaccine programs which some of us will not partake of, once we have learned more about problems with the vaccines. However, this seems even more sinister, i.e., using public monies to test pharmaceuticals on children, for testing which should be done by the manufacturers themselves. I cannot understand what we have come to: there should be NO REASON for young children to need any sort of medication, for the most part. Why are antidepressants even being offerred to toddlers, when that time in life is supposedly a joyous time, when most kids do a lot of their learning? There is something GRAVELY WRONG with whatever is underlying this ugly picture! The weird thing is, is that the manufacturers of these drugs are getting away with a lot: not only do they not have

to pay for the testing of their drugs, they also are absolved of responsibility when things go wrong after the administration of their drugs/vaccines. WAKE UP FOLKS!!! If drugs are needed to fix toddlers, what messed them up in the first place? I would think investigating the dozens of vaccines these little tykes received, some as early as day one, others even earlier if their moms had flu/other vaccines or shots while pregnant (let's also add mercury-containing maternal dental amalgams which emit mercury vapor which crosses the placenta to this picture) would be a GREAT and REWARDING place to start. Aasa Aasa anacat_11 <anacat_11@...> wrote: I never saw this before. Yikes. I'm assuming it was a precurser to the New Freedom Initiative's (2004) Orwellian plan to screen and drug the bejesus out of ever kid in the U.S.. >> I never heard of this before today but apparently since this passed > in 2002 Pharma gets paid with my tax dollars to conduct experimental > studies of their new drugs on children.> Someone please tell me I am wrong!!!!!! > > > > > THE BEST PHARMACEUTICALS FOR> CHILDREN ACT OF 2002:> THE RISE OF THE VOLUNTARY INCENTIVE> STRUCTURE AND CONGRESSIONAL REFUSAL> TO REQUIRE

PEDIATRIC TESTING> Hammer Breslow & #8727;> On January 4, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Best > Pharmaceuticals> for Children Act, which is the government's most comprehensive > legislation> regarding pediatric research to date. The Act offers pharmaceutical> companies a six-month exclusivity term in return for their agreement > to conduct> pediatric tests on drugs. It also provides public funding and > organizes> private funding to help conduct pediatric research on those drugs > that pharmaceutical> companies opt not to test in children. This Note reviews the history> of pediatric research and traces the development of the Best > Pharmaceuticals> for Children Act's unique incentive and public funding structure. The> Note contends that, while the Act is comprehensive and promotes > important> pediatric studies,

its incentive structure forces consumers and > taxpayers to> bear the costs of testing pharmaceuticals in children instead of the > manufacturers> who research, develop, and market those drugs. Congress should > consider> mandating pediatric studies in any future enactment of the > legislation.> In January of 2002, Congress passed the Best Pharmaceuticals for> Children Act ("BPCA"), which was its second major attempt to increase> the number of clinical tests performed on pediatric populations.1 > Congress> passed the BPCA in response to the modest success of its earlier> effort to promote pediatric clinical testing,2 the pediatric > exclusivity provision> of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997> ("FDAMA").3 With both the 1997 and 2002 efforts, Congress has > attempted> to address the dearth of information about the

safety and > effectiveness> of drugs that children commonly use.4 Indeed, before passage of> & #8727; Law Clerk to the Honorable Barbara S. , United States District > Judge for the> Southern District of New York; Harvard College, A.B., 1998; Harvard > Law School, J.D.,> 2002.> 1>