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

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

Developmental toxicity of ribavirin/IFalpha combination therapy: is the label more dangerous than the drugs?

Women and their physicians are concerned about the possibility that medications taken during pregnancy may harm the developing embryo or fetus. The most commonly used source of information regarding the potential teratogenicity of prescription drugs in the United States is the official “label,” a document that is written by the drug’s “sponsor” and approved by the US Food and Drug Administratio...

Principles of human teratology: drug, chemical, and infectious exposure.

OBJECTIVE To provide a teratology update for prescription and non-prescription drugs and infections during pregnancy. OPTIONS Limited to teratology principles and possible common exposures during pregnancy. EVIDENCE A search of Medline and textbooks was conducted for information published to June 2006 on teratology exposure risks. This document represents an abstraction of the information. ...

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...

Teratology Society Public Affairs Committee position paper: developmental toxicity of endocrine disruptors to humans.

SUSAN BARLOW,1 ROBERT J. KAVLOCK,2 JOHN A. MOORE,3 SUSAN L. SCHANTZ,4 DANIEL M. SHEEHAN,5 DANA L. SHUEY,6 AND JOSEPH M. LARY7* 1Consultant Toxicologist, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 6RE United Kingdom 2Reproductive Toxicology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711 3Institute for Evaluating Health Risks, Washington, DC 20006 4Department of Vete...