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This month we concentrate on the hazards of prescribing for children and the hazards of severe or chronic illness early in life. Less seriously, as we approach the end of another year in the Western calendar, Professor David Isaacs and friend from New South Wales apply solemn ethical principles to our favourite consumer (semi)durable, and an etymological trio try, unsuccessfully, to relate an unusual English surname to a simpler method of transportation.See page 552
In 1964, the UK set up a national reporting scheme for suspected adverse drug reactions—widely known as "the yellow card scheme". Reporting is voluntary so it is a blunt epidemiological tool, yet a useful one particularly for uncovering unsuspected and rare ill effects of newly released preparations.
Clarkson and Choonara extracted all yellow card reports over the last 37 years wherein a child was reported as having died. Their paper makes uncomfortable reading as they
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