Maternal-Fetal Toxicology: A Clinician's Guide (Medical Toxicology)

This totally revised and expanded reference presents a problem-based approach to the teratogenic risks of exposure to drugs, chemicals, viruses, and radiation during pregnancy-containing updated material on treatment programs and management approaches, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses of specific xenobiotics.
Offers entirely new features such as clinical case studies at the beginning of most chapters, as well as end-of-chapter solutions!
Summarizing recentlarge-scale prospective studies on the safety of drugs in pregnancy, initiated by the Motherisk Program in Toronto in collaboration with several American services, the Third Edition of Maternal-Fetal Toxicology provides

the latest analysis on alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome

a guide for herbal products in pregnancy

timely information for the evaluation of fetal safety in chemical industries

up-to-the-minute treatment for epilepsy and other chronic conditions in pregnancy

current management of the neonatal abstinence syndrome

modern uses of herbal medicine in pregnancy and during lactation

and more!
Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts in the field, Maternal-Fetal Toxicology, Third Edition, is a practical and well-researched reference for all obstetricians/gynecologists, toxicologists, family physicians, pharmacologists, pediatricians, nurses, pharmacists, poison control specialists, geneticists, and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.