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New Drug Labels to Aid Pregnant, Nursing Women

Women and doctors around the world soon will have clearer information on prescription medicines and how they impact fertility, a fetus and a baby that is nursing.

In the United States, women take between three and five prescription drugs during their pregnancy, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Other women on prescription drugs want to breastfeed their babies. Millions of other women are trying to conceive.

While the drugs might be needed to control anything from high blood pressure to mental illness, they might harm a developing fetus or a nursing baby.

Until now, a grading system classified drugs with letters — A, B , C, D and X, with A being the least risky, X being the most. But the March of Dimes medical director Dr. Edward McCabe, says it will be confusing, said the system "was not informing either the consumers or professionals."

Abilify, a drug used to help people with bipolar disorder, is a grade C drug, but no where on its container doesn't say this, and there are no studies in humans that show what effect this drug might have on a fetus or a nursing baby.

In an online press release, the FDA said the five-letter system would be replaced by new labels with more detailed, up-to-date information so doctors can help their patients make better choices about the risks of certain drugs before and during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.

McCabe said he that welcomed the FDA's new ruling but that what's really needed are more clinical trials and more research.

"We need to recognize that research benefits individuals. Not doing research on pregnant women, women of childbearing age, does a disservice to them," he said. "There is a risk of not knowing information and we need to work and see how we can do this safely, but then once we’ve determined that it is safe, if a drug is being used in pregnant women, we should be studying it."

Dr. McCabe said that for many drugs, we don't have the information we need to make good choices.

词汇解析

justify

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

vt.替 ... 辩护；证明 ... 正当；调整版面

参考例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

He had to justify himself for his conduct.

他不得不为自己的行为辩白。

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saint

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.圣人；圣徒

vt.把 ... 封为圣人

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

They named their child after the saint.

他们用圣人的名字来给他们的孩子命名.

用作及物动词 (vt.)

Confucian doctrine exerted a profound influence on later ages, so Confucius is addressed respectfully as a saint.

孔子的儒家学说对后世影响深远，因而他被世人尊为圣人。

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avoid

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

vt.避免；逃避；[律]使无效；撤销

参考例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

You should avoid unnecessary repetition.

你应避免不必要的重复。

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recover

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.恢复；复原；重获

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

He's now fully recovered from his stroke.

他现已从中风病完全康复了。

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conference

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.会议；讨论会；协商会；会谈

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

An international conference will be held in Beijing next month.

一个国际性的会议下月将在北京举行。

We are all fully confident that the conference will be a great success.

我们都有充分的信心,这次会议将会非常成功。

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largely

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

adv.大部分；主要地

参考例句

用作副词 (adv.)

The farming area is centered largely in the south.

农业区大部分集中在南方。

However, in the East, there were many solar deities, including the Greek Helios, who was largely displaced by Apollo.

然而，在东方，有很多太阳神，包括希腊的太阳神，主要地是以阿波罗来命名。

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conservation

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.保存；保护；守恒；节约

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

If I may refer back to the problem we discussed, I think we shall stress on the conservation of our natural resource.

请允许我重提我们刚才讨论过的问题，我想我们应该强调保存我们的自然资源。

Who discovered the conservation of energy?

谁发现了能量守恒？

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