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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For infants and children, it varies between 16 mg and 65 mg.

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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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There is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), which targets assistance to pregnant women and mothers with small children.

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For years the Oak Brook, Illinois company made miniature car models for adults but added toys for children and infants starting in 1999.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In addition, Catherine Monteiro de Barros, founder and designer of the now defunct Papo D'Anjo, will helm the children's line (which will include clothing for boys and girls, infants to age 14), and Miles Redd, a well-known interior decorator who is already the creative director for Oscar de la Renta Home, will be in charge of the extensive new home-accessories line that is set to launch in late spring.

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There's a wooden book that unfolds into a desk lamp and a polymer incubation blanket for infants that's "on track to save 100, 000 children's lives, " according to Hatch, TechShop's spikey-white-haired CEO.

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