Talk:Pregnancy category
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The actual definitions of the pregnancy categories are copied verbatim from the FDA regulations (which are in the public domain).
Reference to some of the history:
- Sannerstedt R, Lundborg P, Danielsson BR, Kihlstrom I, Alvan G, Prame B, Ridley E. "Drugs during pregnancy: an issue of risk classification and information to prescribers." Drug Saf. 1996 Feb;14(2):69-77.
- Food and Drug Administration. Federal Register 1980;44:37434-67
I'm planning on creating the following table (and a similar one for the Austrialian system) in the next day or so. Any comments? While I'm at it, I'll probably add a list of common drugs, and which pregnancy category they go in in the various classification systems. Any help in the non-FDA systems would be appreciated. Ksheka 18:19, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Nevermind. I'll put it in now, and discussion can be based on how it looks. :-) Ksheka 21:57, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
The passage reading "A shortcoming of the FDA definitions of the pregnancy categories is that the FDA requires an unrealistic amount of high-quality data on a pharmaceutical for it to be defined as Pregnancy Category A" doesn't seem to be fully neutral in tone. Perhaps you could consider some alternate language? Plaid 03:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- re-worded this. The american system is not simply negative. All this is is a characteristic not a shortcoming. Just look at Thalidomide. --Ccosta 02:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] inconsistency
The spellings "fetus" and "foetus" are both used in this article. Only one spelling should be used for consistency within the article.
