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Pregnant women need better asthma management

Despite worsening of asthma symptoms during pregnancy, many women do not take regular preventative asthma medicines, facilitating the need for improved asthma management, experts warn.

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Rethink needed on drug safety advice during pregnancy

Potentially misleading advice given to pregnant women about drug safety, even if based on Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) categorisations, may be putting these women and their babies at significant risk, an Australian expert has warned.

9 weeks ago0

Questions of pregnancy supplements 'irresponsible'
An article by consumer group, Choice, that questions whether pregnancy multivitamin supplements are a gimmick, is irresponsible, an expert says.
22 weeks ago0
Pharmacy staff under-utilised for guidance in pregnancy
Community pharmacies are an “under-utilised” resource and setting for promoting the maintenance of good dietary and physical activity habits pre-and...
30 weeks ago0
No certainty over asthma medication use in pregnancy
There is evidence that use of preventive asthma medications may be linked to negative pregnancy outcomes, although a direct link...
30 weeks ago0
Vitamin D supplementation safe for pregnant women
Use of vitamin D supplements during pregnancy is safe and effective in healthy women, a new study reveals.
31 weeks ago0

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Pharmacists are at times called upon to administer medications of which they may not personally approve. Pharmacy News questioned whether they should have the right to refuse to dispense the emergency contraceptive pill.

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