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. ...

James Graves Wilson's six principles of teratology [4], published in 1959, guide research on teratogenic agents and their effects on developing organisms. Wilson's six principles were inspired by Gabriel Madeleine Camille Dareste's five principles of experimental teratology [4] published in 1877. Teratology is the study of birth defects [5], and a teratogen is something that either induces or a...