Drugs: Females

(asked on 24th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase funding into safer medicines research for drugs taken by pregnant and postnatal women.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 15th March 2021

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded three studies on anti-epilepsy medication use during pregnancy, one study on blood pressure medication for pregnant women and one study on antidepressant use during pregnancy. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including safer medicines research for drugs taken by pregnant and postnatal women.

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