The joint meeting of ENTIS and OTIS which will be held in Newcastle Upon Tyne from 4th to 8th September 2018, preceded by a Teratology Education Course. Please find more details regarding the course on the dedicated website: http://www.uktis.org/html/education-course.html
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The final programme of the 28th ENTIS conference, the Education Course on Hormones and Brain Development and the symposium on pre-term births is now available for download. The Education course and the Symposium are co-organised with the European Teratology Society. For the other details regarding the conference, education course, registration and accomodation please click here.
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In January 2017 Obstetrics & Gynecology published an article on Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and the Risk of Congenital Malformations“ by Brian T Bateman et al. As data on the teratogenic potential of ACE inhibitor (ACEI) are partly conflicting, this pharmacoepidemiologic study wanted to analyze the association between first trimester ACEI exposure and the risk of overall major malformations, of cardiovascular […]
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A collaborative ENTIS study recently published in Reproductive Toxicology (Volume 67, Pages 26-34) has provided no signal that varenicline is a major human teratogen. This collaborative ENTIS study was undertaken by researchers based at teratology information services in the United Kingdom, Israel, France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), Australia, the Netherlands, Finland and Turkey (Izmir), who collectively joined data from over 400 […]
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In August 2016 JAMA Psychiatry published the results of a large pharmacoepidemiological cohort study by Krista Huybrechts et al., examining the risk for congenital malformations overall as well as cardiac malformations associated with first-trimester exposure to antipsychotics. While previous studies documented the outcome of several hundred exposed pregnancies at most, this study cohort included a nationwide sample of more than […]
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A collaborative study published in J Clin Psychiatry by ENTIS and MotherToBaby affiliated researchers did not suggest that first trimester in utero exposure be associated with increased risk of congenital malformations. Methylphenidate is a central nervous system stimulant medicinally used in the treatment of attention deficit disorders. Data on its safety in human pregnancy are sparse. A recent prospective, comparative, […]
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The European Network of Teratology Information Services (ENTIS) in association with the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISOP) and the Norwegian PhD School of Pharmacy (NFIF) recently provided an education course entitled Risk Assessment of Drug Use During Pregnancy and Lactation, which was delivered in the headquarters of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin, Germany. The two day […]
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Agenda of the ENTIS-ISoP-NFIF Training Course “Risk assessment of drug use during pregnancy and lactation” Berlin, June 2-3 , 2016 Scientific programme of 27th Conference of the European Network of Teratology Information Services (ENTIS) Berlin, June 4-5, 2016
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