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Re: Mother Jones Article From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@alumni.rice.edu) Fri Dec 22 09:29:24 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: Labor-Inducing Drug Associated With 8 Deaths" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Mother Jones Article" In reply to: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: Mother Jones Article" on 12/22/00 5:07 AM, Braun, R. Daniel at rbraun@iupui.edu wrote: > Several big issues with this entire article. > 1. Induction of labor at 41 weeks is a standard of care with medical > literature to back it up as decreaseing perinatal mortality and decreasing > cesarean section rates. > 2. What most laypersons don't know is that half the drugs used on pregnant > mothers are not approved for use in pregnancy, because it is too expensive > for the studies to be done by the drug companies. They are done by the > medical community, but are not considered by the FDA when approving a drug > because that can only be done through a drug companies request. > > Sorry, I had to vent a little. > Dan > > R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG > Clinical Professor > Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology > Indiana U. School of Medicine > Indianapolis, IN 46202 good points, Dan. Most people don't realize that almost all the pediatric uses for drugs do not have FDA approval, and we don't obtain informed consent. It would be of interest to find out the particulars of those 8 cases. Are these with prior cesareans? I don't appreciate the inflammatory aspects of the article, but we still need to address the facts. -- ############################################################################ Charlie Chambers "All good things...come Hood River, OR by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not cchamber@alumni.rice.edu come easy." Norman Maclean ############################################################################ Next message: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: Labor-Inducing Drug Associated With 8 Deaths" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Mother Jones Article" In reply to: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: Mother Jones Article"

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