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Researchers from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Naval Health Research Centre in San Diego have published an analysis of the fetal loss (spontaneous abortion and stillbirth combined) rates among active duty military women using antimalarial medications during pregnancy. More information can be found here. Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash

Researchers from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (MA) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have published an update to their 2018 study (see here). The authors state that this update was provided to specifically address the findings of another study published in early 2019 (see here) which suggested an association between the clinical administration of […]

The team at Embryotox Berlin (TIS Berlin) in conjunction with a colleague from Beuth Hochschule für Technik-University of Applied Sciences in Berlin have conducted a study to examine the risk of fetal cardiovascular or renal toxicity following maternal third trimester paracetamol use. More information can be found here. Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

A collaboration of reserchers from Ulster University, Causeway Hospital in Northern Ireland, the Royal-Jubilee Maternity Service in Belfast, Universtiy College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin have published an update of their FASSTT Offspring Trial. This randomised controlled trial originally compared pregnancy outcomes between women treated with 400 micrograms of folic acid and placebo exposed controls. This latest update to the […]

A collaboration of researchers from six ENTIS affiliated organisations and led by researchers at the Berlin TIS (Embryotox) have published their findings investigating the risk of fetotoxicity following maternal ARB or ACE-I use in pregnancy. The results of this research has suggested that, following use for at least 20 weeks of gestation, exposure to ARBs is associated with a higher […]

Researchers from the Organization of Teratology Information Service at the University of California San Diego have published the results of their prospective cohort study of maternal adalimumab use in pregnancy. More information can be found here. Image by mmmCCC from Pixabay

A collaboration of researchers from the University of Auckland and Otago have published a retrospective cohort study examining the difference in birth and hospital-related outcomes of infants with and without fetal exposure to Tdap vaccination in utero. More information can be found here. Photo by Hyttalo Souza on Unsplash

A collaboration of researchers has investigated the possible association between dolutegravir and neural tube defects in four major spontaneous reporting pharmacovigilance systems . More information can be found here. Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash

Researchers from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) have published their adjusted national birth prevalence estimates generated from the 2010 to 2014 NBDPS birth cohort. More information can be found here. Photo by Patricia Prudente on Unsplash

A collaborative of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania and Emory University School of Medicine have published an interesting article detailing their experience of developing a machine learning based system to survey pubically available Twitter posts for birth defect epidmiology purposes. More information can be found here. Photo by Kon Karampelas on Unsplash