Pediatrics
Unique challenges and complexities of pediatric clinical trials explored.
Pregnant participants in clinical trials
Register today for our webinar on the considerations for including pregnant individuals in clinical trials. Learn about guidance in development by regulatory authorities to establish a framework for pregnancy safety studies.
Pediatrics newsletters
Pediatric Risk Assessment Map
The Pediatric Risk Assessment Map is an interactive, reusable, and shareable tool that helps to identify common risks that exist in clinical trials that include pediatric patients and offers mitigation strategies for consideration.
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½¡¯s World Children¡¯s Day
World Children¡¯s Day is celebrated as an international coming together to advocate for, promote, and celebrate the rights and welfare of children and create dialogue and action plans to build a better world for children. In this webinar, our speakers will explore ongoing regulatory initiatives that aim to promote diversity and inclusion within pediatric therapeutics development.
The RACE for Children Act
Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in the US. The intent of the RACE for Children Act is to get more pediatric oncology drugs in the pipeline.
The utility and benefits of adding adolescents to an adult programme
In this webinar, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ expert, Dr. Martine Dehlinger-Kremer, shares insights on the utility and benefits of adding adolescents to an adult programme, challenges encountered and provides recommendations to overcome these.
The RACE for Children Act prompts more pediatric clinical trials for oncology drug development
In this on-demand webinar, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ expert Missy Hansen, presents on the pediatric regulatory requirements and study approaches for the development of new medicines, with a particular focus on oncology drug development.
Reflections on pediatric assent: Have we outgrown this concept?
In this webinar, medical ethicists will discuss what investigators, ethics committees, IRBs and ¨C ideally ¨C sponsors can do to reverse this trend and create documents which achieve their intended purpose of allowing a child to understand their trial.
Pediatrics podcasts
Pediatrics media contributions and blogs
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Blog: Navigating Pediatric Drug Development (PDP) in Canada: A comprehensive guide part 2
In the previous blog of this series, we introduced the pilot PDP initiated by Health Canada including the types of PDP that can be submitted and the content and format of a C-PDP. This blog discusses the review of PDPs by Health Canada, amending agreed-to PDPs and annual reporting requirements.
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Blog: Navigating Pediatric Drug Development (PDP) in Canada: A comprehensive guide part 1
Health Canada is taking steps to increase data availability to help health care providers by piloting a program for PDPs. In our series we review it & provide guidance.
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Blog: Celebrating World Children¡¯s Day
To mark World Children's Day we reflect on ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½¡¯s commitment to increase pediatric healthcare access and inclusion by supporting pediatric clinical trials.
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Blog: Designing clinical trials for a complex disease: Pediatric obesity
Pediatric obesity is a complex disease with multiple factors for sponsors to consider when designing and executing treatment trials.
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Blog: The impact of pediatric medical trauma in clinical trials
Patient-centric pediatric clinical trials can help mitigate the risk of potentially life-long implications of medical trauma and improve trial outcomes.
Pediatrics services
ICON is invested in bringing safe, effective, pediatric-tested treatments to children. Explore our pediatric experience and how we can support your study from early engagement all the way to approval.