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Researchers from The University of Melbourne (Australia) have published an analysis of data collected in the Raoul Wallenberg Australian Pregnancy Register of Antiepileptic Drugs. The study investigates whether in utero exposure to specific types of ASM monotherapies is associated with poorer neurocognitive outcomes compared with ASM-unexposed children. More information is available here. Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.

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Researchers from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University (Atlanta, GA, USA) have published an update of the global status of spina bifida and anencephaly prevention by folic acid. More information is available here. Photo by Beelith USA

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An international collaboration of researchers have published a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the safety of anti-TNF blockers, vedolizumab and ustekinumab in pregnancy. Although higher risks were observed for vedolizumab and ustekinumab in comparison with anti-TNF inhibitors, the authors concluded that this was likely related to longer disease duration, prior biologic exposure, and more active disease, More information is available […]

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Researchers from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Community Health Sciences, at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) have published a large analysis of data collected from the Southern Israeli Pregnancy Registry project. More information is available here,

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Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mass General Brigham for Children (Boston, USA) have published an updated analysis of data from the North American AED Pregnancy Registry. The study assesses the risk of major malformation among infants of women using common ASM polytherapies during the first trimester. More information is available here. Photo by Polina Tankilevitch […]

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Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) have published a systematic review and meta-analysis of neonatal and obstetric outcomes following GLP1 receptor agonist exposure in pregnancy. More information is available here. Photo by Pavel Danilyuk available from Pexels

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Researchers from the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute have published the sequential surveillance findings for ten prespecified safety outcomes of exposure to RSVpreF during pregnancy over the course of its first vaccination season in the US. More information is available here. Photo by www.kaboompics.com

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Researchers from the University of Bergen have published a systematic review demonstrating the conflicting nature of the evidence surrounding the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders following in utero topiramate exposure. More information is available here.

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Researchers from the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA, have published a study utilising a tree-based scan statistic (TBSS) approach evaluating the risk of a range of specific malformations and malformation groupings and their association with prenatal antipsychotic exposure. More information is available here. Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash

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A collaboration of researchers from Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have published a target trial emulation study assessing the risk of malformation associated with the timing of high-dose folic acid supplementation among women taking antiseizure medications. More information is available here. Photo by Ocean Ng on Unsplash

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