Category: ENTIS News

Prof. Asher Ornoy and Prof. Paul Merlob are the latest awardees of an honorary ENTIS membership, awarded for their outstanding contribution and lifelong commitment to the field of Teratology.  The awards were presented on behalf of the ENTIS board by Orna Diav-Citrin, current ENTIS President, during a Teratology Symposium hosted at the Israeli Teratology Information Service, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, […]

ENTIS is hosting its first public journal club using the Twitter platform! For all those interested in taking part, tweeting will commence at 9pm GMT on 20th November. The paper being discussed this week is Antidepressant use during pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a nested case–control study. This paper was published at the start of October in […]

Congratulations to ENTIS associate member Dr Michael Ceulemans who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitiled, “Medication Use During Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation – Towards safe and rational use enhanced by community pharmacists’ counseling”. We wish you good luck with continuing your work setting up a TIS in Belgium! Jury members were Prof. Hedvig Nordeng (University of Oslo, Norway) and Apr. […]

The ENTIS Board are delighted to announce that Professor Christof Schaefer of Berlin TIS and Professor Maurizio Clementi of the University Hospital of Padova TIS have been awarded honorary ENTIS membership for their outstanding contribution and support of the European Network of Teratology Information Services. The awards were presented on behalf of the ENTIS board by the ENTIS president Dr […]

On the 18th September 2019, ENTIS issued an official response to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessement Committee (PRAC) concerning the recommendations which were made about ondansetron use by pregnant women, as detailed in the minutes of their meeting held from the 8th to 11th July. The official ENTIS response statement can be read here.

In April 2019, a landmark public-private partnership called ConcePTION was awarded a five year grant by the Innovative Medicines Initiative to tackle many of the research gaps related to medicines use by pregnant women. The project, which unites 88 organisations from 22 different countries, aims to build a pan-European ecosystem for generating, monitoring and providing robust information on the safety […]