Gideon Koren

TL;DR: The goal of this report was to summarize all related issues into one review to facilitate both practitioners’ and patients’ access to known data on fetal risks and safety.

TL;DR: No evidence indicates that killed influenza vaccine is teratogenic, even if given during the first trimester, and it is recommended that pregnant women in their second and third trimesters be vaccinated.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that improper dissolution of the vehicle Cremophor EL may have been a cause for these anaphylactoid reactions during a phase I/II trial of high-dose intravenous cyclosporine (CsA) therapy to attenuate tumor multidrug resistance (MDR).

TL;DR: Based on the available scientific information, blue cohosh should be used with extreme caution during pregnancy, be used only under medical professional supervision and not be available to the public as an over-the-counter product.

TL;DR: Progress is made in the use of out-of-office blood pressure measurement as an adjunct to officeBlood pressure measurement, pre-eclampsia defined as proteinuria or relevant end-organ dysfunction, antihypertensive therapy for severe and non-severe hypertension and post-partum follow-up to mitigate the increased cardiovascular risk associated with any of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.