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Side Effects of Drugs Used During Pregnancy to be Studied

A collaborative study is being conducted by the FDA, Vanderbilt University, and a number of research centers across the country to examine the effects of prescription medication on pregnant women.

The research program is using health care information on mothers and their children from 11 participating sites, which will give researchers a database of about one million births from a time period of 2001 through 2007. FDA announced the program, known as the Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program MEPREP in a statement issued on December 30, 2009.

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