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Researchers from the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (Montreal, Canada) have published a large population based study including approximately 2,400 mother-infant pairs where they investigated associations between maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and offspring ADHD risk. No evidence of a statistically significant association was provided by this study, including in a sensitivity analysis which restricted the cohort to offspring with more […]

Researchers from Swansea University, University of Manchester, Ulster University and Université Toulouse have published an interesting article describing the historically limited research which has been conducted into the safety of medicines use in breastfeeding. For more information, see here. Photo by Ksenia Makagonova on Unsplash

Researchers from Ammon Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health (Boston, MA, USA), have published a small case series of first trimester buspirone-exposed pregnancies. More information can be found here. Photo by Joice Kelly on Unsplash

Researchers from the Kerala Registry of epilepsy and pregnancy have published an update of their dataset describing the neurodevelopmental attainment of children of women with epilepsy. More information can be found here. Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash

Researchers from the ENTIS affiliated Swiss Teratogen Information Service (STIS) have published details about the clinical queries raised to the on medication use in pregnancy to the service over the last 20 years. More information can be found here. Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash.

ENTIS affiliated researchers from the Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Research Group, , PharmaTox Research Initiative at the University of Oslo have published a study investigating whether an association exists between maternal use of triptans during pregnancy and diagnosis or symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder among their offspring. More information can be found here. Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash

JAMA Neurology have recently published a population-based cohort study which used health and social register data from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to investigate neurodevelopmental outcomes of children (up to age 8) exposed to antiseizure medications in pregnancy. Increased risks of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability were observed for children exposed to topiramate in utero. More information can […]

ENTIS affiliated researchers from the Terafar; Izmir Katip Celebi University Teratology Information, Training and Research Center in Turkey, have published a systematic review and meta-analysis of pregnancy outcomes following maternal exposure to statins. More information can be found here. Photo by Christine Sandu on Unsplash

An international collaboration of researchers led from Haukeland University Hospital in Norway have published a population-based cohort study using health register and social register data from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden investigating whether children exposed prenatally to antiseizure medications have increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. More information is available here.