Scientists and clinicians at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity have discovered a small subset of T-cells that may play a key role in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies against leukaemia in children. The researchers, who assessed and compared CAR T-cells in patients receiving treatment as part of a Phase I
With this public consultation, citizens and stakeholders are invited to share their views and experiences on the main obstacles they are facing concerning treatments for rare diseases and children, on possible ways to overcome these obstacles and on how to make the current legislation future-proof. Stakeholders and members of the public, including patients and doctors,
Despite the growing evidence on short and long-term consequences of neonatal pain, under-assessment and under-treatment is still reported. The aim of this questionnaire is to explore paediatricians’ knowledge and practice of neonatal pain in different countries across Europe. Filling out the questionnaire is anonymous, voluntary and will take about 10-15 minutes. No personal data will
The National Ethical consultative Commitee for life sciences and health (CCNE - France) issued a measured and cautious positive opinion because of the ethical questions raised on vaccination in adolescents. Less than a year after the beginning of the SARS-COV2 pandemic, the development and marketing of vaccines has profoundly changed the situation by adding a
The TEDDY KIDS Bari and Albania young members created a serious game, a digital game with an educational purpose. “My Clinical Trial Center” aims at explaining to children in a fun way what clinical trials are, how they work and why they are so important to developing drugs suitable for children. The game is
In May and June 2021 the TEDDY’s Chair, Annagrazia Altavilla, presented the results of the TEDDY Council of Europe Survey on participation of children in the decision-making process on matters regarding their health in the plenary sessions of the Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) and the Steering Committee for the rights of the Child (CDENF) of
The annual General Assembly (GA) meeting of the TEDDY Network was held virtually on 22nd June 2021. As every year, the TEDDY GA meeting registered high-level professionals among participants and speakers which were Network members as well as European Commission (EC), Council of Europe (CoE), Young Persons Advisory Groups (YPAG) and Academia representatives. The meeting
TEDDY Network has been invited to join the Monitoring Body of the EUCROF Code of Conduct for Service Providers in Clinical Research. EUCROF, the European CROs Federation, is the owner of the GDPR Code which helps to ensure the privacy rights and freedoms of trial participants while promoting the lawful, fair, and meaningful use of
TEDDY Network is one of the 50th associations from 18 countries signed a Manifesto with 10 Recommendations addressed to European institutions, to remark the unmet needs of non-Covid patients, launched by Active Citizenship Network (ACN) on the occasion of the recent "European Patients’ Rights Day". European Union, national and regional institutions, and decision-makers should
The article "Children’s Preferences for Oral Dosage Forms and Their Involvement in Formulation Research via EPTRI (European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure)" has been published in Pharmaceutics as part of the Special Issue Scientific Highlights in the First European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure Open Meeting. The article is a result of the study commissioned by the