International Meeting on Cancer & Pregnancy: closing the information gap

What advice should be given to a pregnant woman with cancer? As we try to close the information gap around this subject and call for a centralization of expertise on this subject, events like the International Meeting on Cancer and Pregnancy, which was held at the end of November 2013, are essential. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQHLjqqvaU4 It is possible to treat cancer during…

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Treating epilepsy in pregnancy

Epilepsy and pregnancy. Not an impossible combination, but certainly a difficult one. It’s also rare – according to research from 1999 only 0.5% of all pregnancies occur in epileptic women – but it is this very scarcity of cases that causes epilepsy in pregnant women to be under-researched. As it stands, the advice for mothers-to-be suffering from epilepsy is mixed.…

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Are anti-malarials safe in pregnancy?

A lot of women across the world are lucky. If they don’t live in regions where diseases like malaria are endemic, then they don’t need to worry about infection and treatment while they’re pregnant. These women don’t have to think about whether or not anti-malarial drugs will affect their unborn child, they just follow the advice of institutions like the…

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