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Medicines and pregnancy. How to limit risks?


Professor Gilles Olagner is President of Galenic Interviews and President Emeritus of the National Academy of Pharmacy.

Dr. Avro Gouraud works at the Center for Pharmacovigilance, University Hospital Department of Pharmaco-Toxicology, Civil Hospice of Lyon.


In France, more than 70% of pregnant women take at least one medication during pregnancy to treat an acute or chronic pathology. Consumption figures for dietary supplements, essential oils, aromatherapy or herbal products are not known, but their “natural” image often and unjustifiably positions them as a safer alternative to drugs, even though “they are much less evaluated and controlled”. .

In recent years, the pharmacist’s role as a local player in public health and prevention has become increasingly popular and recognized, and recently health insurance has agreed to reimburse…

Source: Le Figaro

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