Becoming a Leader: Donato Bonifazi on ‘Managing Trials’

Becoming a Leader: Donato Bonifazi on ‘Managing Trials’

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...

Adolescent Inclusion Decision Tree

Adolescent Inclusion Decision Tree

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,...

Project MADAM (Model Adjusted Doses for All Mothers)

Project MADAM (Model Adjusted Doses for All Mothers)

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...

Reducing long-term complications in preterm infants

Reducing long-term complications in preterm infants

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...

#ACT4RARE Toolkit – New UN Resolution Toolkit Launch

#ACT4RARE Toolkit – New UN Resolution Toolkit Launch

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The Second Paediatric Expert Patients Training Workshop was a success!

The Second Paediatric Expert Patients Training Workshop was a success!

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)...

KIDS Albania and KIDS Bari participation in the 2022 iCAN Summit

KIDS Albania and KIDS Bari participation in the 2022 iCAN Summit

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...

FDA approval of Vaxneuvance vaccine for use in children

FDA approval of Vaxneuvance vaccine for use in children

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...