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ArticleCrohn's & colitis 3602025

Children With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases are Disadvantaged by Current Drug Approval Policies: A Call for Urgent Change.

Benjamin Sahn, Ross M Maltz, Joel R Rosh

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Article in Crohn's & colitis 360, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Benjamin SahnNorthwell, New Hyde Park, NY, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1310-2108
Ross M MaltzDivision of Pediatric, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Joel R RoshNorthwell, New Hyde Park, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is significantly hindered by the lack of US Food and Drug Administration-approved biologic and small-molecule medications. This review explains the burdens faced by children with IBD because of this problem and appraises the marked historical timeline differences in medication approval between adults and children with IBD. The authors follow with an in-depth focus on the pointed disparity in approved therapies for children with IBD compared to children with rheumatologic immune-mediated diseases, highlighting the differences in stringency of evidence that has been used to gain medication approval for children with rheumatologic diseases. The editorial concludes with a call for change in regulatory agency protocols, to adopt a modernized strategy that will expedite the approval of advanced therapies for children with IBD.

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PMID40589946
PMCPMC12207290

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