Dr Donato Bonifazi, in his role as iCAN Advisory Board Member, has participated in the International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN), “Becoming a Leader” short videos series to talk about the challenges of conducting clinical trials for and with the paediatric population. According to Dr Bonifazi “we’ll not only need to adapt adults' medicines to
The European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) Children’s Medicines Working Party (CMWP) has developed an open-access “Adolescent Inclusion Decision Tree” to be used by trial sponsors, trial investigators, IRBs/ethics committees, and health regulatory agencies, when a trial with age-inclusive trial design is being explored, developed or reviewed. The tool outlines over-arching principles for consideration,
Project MADAM (Model Adjusted Doses for All Mothers) is a collaboration between Radboud UMC and Maastricht University Medical Centres in the Netherlands and the Dutch Teratology Information Service (Lareb) with funding from the Gates Foundation that addresses the gap of knowledge and limited information on medication doses in pregnancy. In particular, this project aims to
In a new study, a team of researchers from Inserm, University Hospital Lille, and Université de Lille at the Lille Neuroscience and Cognition laboratory has opened up interesting avenues to improve the prognosis of preterm infants. By conducting research into congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, scientists have discovered the key role that nitric oxide synthase (NOS1) plays
TEDDY is always proactive in addressing ethical, legal, social and regulatory issues of paediatric research, enhancing the awareness of the main stakeholders on the still unmet needs and peculiarities of children. TEDDY has participated in several European initiatives aimed at promoting the engagement of children and young patients in decisions regarding their health both
The UN Resolution on Persons Living with a Rare Disease was adopted in December 2021. Now, you can use all the information included in the kit to raise awareness and call action to the UN Resolution in your own country. What can you find in this kit? – A summary of the actions all
The workshop organized by the TEDDY Network in collaboration with EURORDIS and the Sant Joan de Déu Research Foundation in the framework of the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD), was held the past July 11th -15th at the University of Lyon (France) during the 2022 International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN) Summit (please
TEDDY Network’s young persons advisory groups (YPAG) from Albania (KIDS Albania) and Bari (KIDS Bari) have joined the 2022 International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN) Summit that was held in-person last July 11th-15th in Lyon, France. During these intense and productive 5 days of meeting, which was totally devoted to Rare Diseases (RDs), participants had the
The General Assembly of TEDDY network was held on-line on the 7th of July, within a hearing at the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) and the Steering Committee for the rights of the child (CDENF) are developing a “Guide” aimed
Vaxneuvance vaccine The Vaxneuvance, a 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, produced my Merck & Co. received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its use in children aged six weeks through to 17 years, making it the first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine approved in almost a decade to help protect paediatric populations