{"id":451,"date":"2014-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/should-pregnant-women-be-excluded-from-medical-research\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:39:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:39:20","slug":"should-pregnant-women-be-excluded-from-medical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/should-pregnant-women-be-excluded-from-medical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Should pregnant women be excluded from medical research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the research conducted on chronic health conditions such as depression, diabetes and hypertension, it is interesting how little, if any, research is done to see how treatments or drugs that abate these conditions would affect pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/society-for-womens-health-research\/pregnant-women-must-be-st_1_b_6014602.html\" target=\"_blank\">HuffingtonPost.com<\/a> report, there is a significant gap of knowledge on how medications affect pregnant women because they have been historically excluded from medical research. This is due, in large part, to the notion that pregnant women should avoid taking a number of medicines out of fear that it would adversely affect the fetus. Nevertheless, a woman who fails to continue necessary medications, or fails to begin a prescribed treatment may run into the same risks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reality is, women are having children at older ages, and chronic medical conditions are more common. Because of this, stopping medication may not be the best option for an expectant mother. Additionally, if a pregnant woman has more information about the benefits and drawbacks of a medicine or treatment, chances are that staying the course could improve her short-term (and long term) health while minimizing the potential complications to the baby.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/should-pregnant-women-be-excluded-from-medical-research\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Should pregnant women be excluded from medical research?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the research conducted on chronic health conditions such as depression, diabetes and hypertension, it is interesting how little, if any, research is done to see how treatments or drugs that abate these conditions would affect pregnant women. According to a recent HuffingtonPost.com report, there is a significant gap of knowledge on how medications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy-related-injuries","tag-pregnancy-related-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Should pregnant women be excluded from medical research? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; November 6, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Should pregnant women be excluded from medical research? - Pregnancy Related Injuries - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/should-pregnant-women-be-excluded-from-medical-research\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Should pregnant women be excluded from medical research? 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