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Material is presented according to categories of drugs.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. This book was designed to assist physicians and other health care professionals in counseling pregnant women who have concerns about the possible effects of drugs and other agents on their developing babies. Risk assessments based on a consensus of ratings by the authors and five internationally-recognized authorities in clinical teratology are provided for each agent in the book. This book provides clinicians with useful guidelines for clinical evaluation and patient counseling as well as information regarding the reproductive effects of commonly-used medications, occupational agents, and substances of abuse. A Clinician s Guide, 2nd ed.