Teratology public affairs committee position paper: iodine deficiency in pregnancy.

Teratology public affairs committee position paper: Pregnancy labeling for prescription drugs: Ten years later.

September 12, 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of a public hearing that was hoped to be the death knell of the pregnancy labeling categories for pharmaceuticals, the A, B, C, D, X system of designations that was put in place by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1979 (US FDA, 1979). The replacement of the pregnancy labeling categories had been sought by the Public Affairs Committee of...

Statement of the Public Affairs Committee of the Teratology Society on the importance of smoking cessation during pregnancy.

Sufficient iodine intake during pregnancy: just do it.

The adverse effects of severe iodine deficiency and maternal hypothyroidism on fetal and neonatal neurodevelopment are well-established. In recent decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on studying the effects of mild to moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy and lactation. The American Thyroid Association (ATA) recommended in 2006 that all pregnant and lactating women in North Ame...

Iodine Nutrition Requirements During Pregnancy

947 THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF the American Thyroid Association (ATA) for iodine nutrition during pregnancy have been reviewed by the ATA’s Public Affairs Committee in this issue of Thyroid (1). The members of this committee are highly distinguished thyroidologists whose extensive experience brought together can only be equaled by the length of their individual professional careers (incidentally, I...

Statement of the Public Affairs Committee of the Teratology Society on the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Since the initial observations over 25 years ago that alcohol (ethanol) is a human teratogen (Jones et al., ’73; Jones and Smith, ’73), concerns regarding the prenatal effects of alcohol as a significant public health problem have been raised throughout the world. Much effort has gone into the delineation of a physical and neurobehavioral phenotype, numerous studies have focused on the birth pr...