The risks and benefits of using fr...

The risks and benefits of using frequent drugs on young children and pregnant women ne to be examined more carefully, hints a study reported in the November 2002 issue of the journal Pediatrics.

Thomas Moore, PhD of The George Washington University in Washington, DC course of lifeed a study with other scientists at the University of Maryland in Baltimore using reports of adverse medicine effects, which had been filed with the FDA.

Moore's team institute that medications given to children and to mothers during pregnancy, labor or while breast-feeding, played a part in 769 deaths. And they set close to 6,000 side drifts in American children under 2 years of age between 1997 and 2000 put drugs intos taken by mothers during the perinatal phase--the period from several weeks prior to birth to a not many weeks after--constitute a major avenue for side drifts for young children.

The medications most numerous implicated were antibiotics and over-the-counter drugs

In an unrelated thought reported in the January 2003 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Heather Flynn PhD and her team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor set that one in seven American women still drinks alcohol while pregnant. This despite the fact that drinking during pregnancy has in extent been linked to fetal alcohol syndrome

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