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Monitoring outcomes of suicide attempts in pregnancy can better assess drug dangers
October 2nd, 2008
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (17 September, 2008) – Monitoring the health of children born to women who attempted suicide while pregnant can shed light on which medicines and what doses are particularly dangerous to developing fetuses, according to researchers from Hungary who publish their findings in a series of reports in a special issue of Toxicology and Industrial Health, published this week by SAGE. Information about the harm particular drugs can do to unborn children – a measure known as tetrogenic potential – is generally extrapolated from experimental animal investigations before the drug is approved for sale, because ethical...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-10-02)
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