For years the Oak Brook, Illinois company made miniature car models for adults but added toys for children and infants starting in 1999.
These positive results help pave the way for the pivotal Phase III efficacy study that will recruit up to 16, 000 children and infants at 11 trial sites in seven countries.
Today, Kopila -- which means "flower bud" in Nepali -- is home to about 50 children, from infants to teenagers.
Consider meningococcal disease, a rare but devastating bacteria-caused illness that primarily affects infants and children.
The publication covers newborn babies, infants, children and adolescents up to 18 years of age.
The drug is used for infants and children, and Pfizer wants U.S. approval to treat adults age 50 and over.
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Other federal dollars are used to fund Women Infants and Children (WIC) programs for new mothers who meet certain income guidelines.
As one example, Abbott in 2009 opened a Singapore manufacturing facility that serves up to one million infants and children each year.
For infants and children, it varies between 16 mg and 65 mg.
There is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), which targets assistance to pregnant women and mothers with small children.
Yet we still debate the merits of the federally funded WIC (Womens, Infants and Children) program, school lunches and food assistance to needy families.
He had painted infants, children, men, and women, and even corpses.
When data showed that the vaccine could best protect infants and children, we enlisted our current partners, who have helped shoulder some of the financial risks.
And infants and children are the biggest spreaders of colds.
It is especially important in enclosed settings where disease droplets can easily spread to passengers sitting in close quarters, especially infants and children and those with special health care needs.
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The FDA last March asked pediatricians to stop administering GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix, a vaccine that prevents rotavirus infection, a diarrheal illness that commonly affects infants and children and that can cause severe dehydration.
And where would we be without the WIC program that provides healthy foods to pregnant women, and infants and children up to five years old? 50% of all babies born in the United States utilize WIC.
There are many ways this could be dealt with from a policy perspective -- through the Women Infants and Children program, the SNAP program, Child Care Subsidies, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- the list goes on.
Infants and children, because of their smaller size and stage of development, are particularly at risk from the harmful health effects of BPA. But since BPA is not listed on food or drink labels, we have no way of knowing our daily exposure, or which products to avoid.
Many national foreign health organizations have enacted legislation to ban the production and sales of plastics containing BPA, especially those used for infants and small children.
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For those who suffered mostly misery in this life, who died as infants or young children, who never really had an opportunity to know true joy or love, the afterlife offered a second chance and a way to address the unfairness of this life.
The biggest lifetime risks were seen in those exposed as infants, compared with children or adults.
In infants and very young children, pertussis causes violent, spasmodic coughing that repeats over and over.
In 2008, East Tennessee Children's Hospital treated 33 infants at the hospital for drug dependence, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Diphenhydramine HCL tends to concentrate in fluid around the brain in young children and can have unpredictable results in infants and toddlers, he says.
Neil Buhne, the organisation's humanitarian co-ordinator in Sri Lanka, said after a visit to camps for displaced civilians that he had seen infants with dysentery, malnourished children and women with untended wounds.
Although a surgical procedure is successful in many infants, three of every four children who have biliary atresia need a liver transplant before the age of 20.
As a result, many diseases that used to infect millions of children each year, killing or permanently injuring thousands of infants and toddlers, have almost disappeared from modern societies.
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The WIC program, which covers 45 percent of infants across the country and more than 5 million children younger than 5, is "the single largest point of access to health services for low-income preschool children who are at the highest risk for low vaccination coverage, " according to the administration.
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