{"id":119534,"date":"2009-12-31T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2009\/12\/31\/which-drugs-are-safe-to-take-during-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:55:36","slug":"which-drugs-are-safe-to-take-during-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/119534","title":{"rendered":"Which Drugs Are Safe to Take During Pregnancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pregnant\"Most pregnant women wind up taking at least one prescription drug<\/a>. But, because no one wants to subject pregnant women and their unborn children to a clinical trial, there’s very little clear evidence about the unique risks some prescription drugs may pose during pregnancy.<\/p>\n

So the FDA is funding<\/a> an analysis of data on prescription drug use and pregnancy outcomes from a bunch of health systems that collectively recorded roughly one million births between 2001 and 2007. Researchers from Harvard, Vanderbilt and Kaiser Permanente, among others, will work on the project.<\/p>\n

In the current system, women and their doctors rely in part on letters the FDA assigns to prescription drugs as a shorthand for what is known about a drug’s effect on pregnant women and their babies. The letters are explained here<\/a>. A 2004 study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology<\/a> found that more than a third of pregnant women take prescription drugs from category C, which means the effects on human fetuses are unknown.<\/p>\n

The FDA described<\/a> the new reserach project in a statement yesterday, but didn’t say when it expects results from the analysis.<\/p>\n

Hat Tip: Pharmalot<\/a>; Image: iStockphoto<\/em><\/p>\n

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Most pregnant women wind up taking at least one prescription drug. But, because no one wants to subject pregnant women and their unborn children to a clinical trial, there’s very little clear evidence about the unique risks some prescription drugs may pose during pregnancy. So the FDA is funding an analysis of data on prescription […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}