Brussels, 30/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Presenting the proposed regulation on the paediatric use of medicines to the press on Wednesday, Commissioner Olli Rehn stressed the importance of this proposal in a field in which Europe lags ten years behind the United States: the correct use of medicines for children. Whereas currently over half of all medicines used in paediatrics have never been clinically tested on children, the Commissioner stressed that this proposal will allow "the availability...