Pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in obese children

Author byline as per print journal: Mario R Sampson, PharmD; Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD, PhD; Professor Daniel Kelly Benjamin Jr, MD, MPH, PhD; Edmund V Capparelli, PharmD; Kevin M Watt, MD Introduction: Childhood obesity is common and results in substantial morbidity. The most commonly prescribed drugs in obese children are antibiotics. However, physiological changes associated with […]


Generic and therapeutic orphans

Abstract:  This commentary discusses the need to develop methods to ensure the availability of non-profitable, off-patent medicines to children and other populations. The history and some of the shortcomings of legislative attempts to provide drug therapy to children are briefly reviewed. Some examples of the inability of the current generics and non-generics pharmaceutical industry as […]