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They got some incentive two weeks ago, when the FDA approved for the first time the use of two protease inhibitors for children--Agouron's nelfinavir and Abbott's ritonavir. But parents and pediatricians complain that they still don't have enough information about how to use them. Nelfinavir, in particular, "went through the approval process very rapidly," says Dr. Mark Kline, associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "There are some basic pieces of information about nelfinavir that we don't have--like how often to give the drug or in what dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS? | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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