DRUGS IN PREGNANCY: ACKNOWLEDGING CHALLENGES - FINDING SOLUTIONS

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Gideon Koren
Stuart MacLeod
Donald Davis

Keywords

DRUGS, PREGNANCY

Abstract

Due to obvious ethical issues of experimenting drugs during fetal development, women and their unborn babies are commonly excluded from drug  trials.  As  a  result,  these  two  groups  of patients are commonly orphaned from the revolution in drug therapy witnessed in the last generation.

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