DRUGS IN PREGNANCY: ACKNOWLEDGING CHALLENGES - FINDING SOLUTIONS
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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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Koren, G., MacLeod, S., & Davis, D. (2018). DRUGS IN PREGNANCY: ACKNOWLEDGING CHALLENGES - FINDING SOLUTIONS. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 14(1). https://mail.jptcp.com/index.php/jptcp/article/view/140
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Koren, G., MacLeod, S., & Davis, D. (2018). DRUGS IN PREGNANCY: ACKNOWLEDGING CHALLENGES - FINDING SOLUTIONS. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 14(1). https://mail.jptcp.com/index.php/jptcp/article/view/140