Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation

Thoroughly updated, with 132 new drug entries, the Seventh Edition of this popular reference provides practical, reliable information on more than 1,000 drugs that may be used by pregnant and lactating women. New to this edition are highlighted recommendations in each drug entry that indicate the level of risk to the fetus and nursing infant. The recommendations help readers interpret animal and human pregnancy data to assess potential human risk when there are human data or the human data are limited or not available.

FDA Risk Factor ratings for each drug are also included. Drugs are listed alphabetically and indexed by generic and US and foreign trade names.

This edition is also available for PDAs. See PDA listing for details.