Talk:Pregnancy category

message: The pregnancy catagories as previously described on this page will be obsolete after June 30, 2015.  The FDA has released the Final Rule on the changes, officially listed in the federal registry on 12/4/2015.
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/12/04/2014-28241/content-and-format-of-labeling-for-human-prescription-drug-and-biological-products-requirements-for
From the page:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations governing the content and format of the “Pregnancy,” “Labor and delivery,” and “Nursing mothers” subsections of the “Use in Specific Populations” section of the labeling for human prescription drug and biological products. The final rule requires the removal of the pregnancy categories A, B, C, D, and X from all human prescription drug and biological product labeling. For human prescription drug and biological products subject to the Agency's 2006 Physician Labeling Rule, the final rule requires that the labeling include a summary of the risks of using a drug during pregnancy and lactation, a discussion of the data supporting that summary, and relevant information to help health care providers make prescribing decisions and counsel women about the use of drugs during pregnancy and lactation. The final rule eliminates the “Labor and delivery” subsection because information about labor and delivery is included in the “Pregnancy” subsection. The final rule requires that the labeling include relevant information about pregnancy testing, contraception, and infertility for health care providers prescribing for females and males of reproductive potential. The final rule creates a consistent format for providing information about the risks and benefits of prescription drug and/or biological product use during pregnancy and lactation and by females and males of reproductive potential. These revisions will facilitate prescriber counseling for these populations.
I will leave the updating of the page to others, but this is important to document correctly.
Garylian (talk) 15:48, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind.  I'll put it in now, and discussion can be based on how it looks. :-) Ksheka 21:57, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
The passage reading "A shortcoming of the FDA definitions of the pregnancy categories is that the FDA requires an unrealistic amount of high-quality data on a pharmaceutical for it to be defined as Pregnancy Category A" doesn't seem to be fully neutral in tone. Perhaps you could consider some alternate language?
Plaid 03:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

text: re-worded this.  The american system is not simply negative.  All this is is a characteristic not a shortcoming.  Just look at Thalidomide. --Ccosta 02:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The spellings "fetus" and "foetus" are both used in this article. Only one spelling should be used for consistency within the article.
Perhaps "foetus" should be used instead of "fetus" for the Australian ADEC table, seeing as though this would actually be the spelling used in the official classification.
Australian categorisation wouldn't use American spelling.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.26.202 (talk) 12:18, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  inconsistency 

message: Links to pregnancy category are enabled in Template:drugbox, but relevant wikipedia cataloging has not been implemented.  This makes it difficult for readers to search here for drugs by pregnancy category.  Could someone here lend a hand in implementing some sort of category scheme?  --Una Smith (talk) 00:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion here. --Una Smith (talk) 17:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pregnancy category in drugbox template

message: According to Gluck JC and Gluck PA (Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Feb;192(2):369-80) theophylline should be rated PRC B. Is there an official FDA statement?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.66.51.155 (talk) 13:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pregnancy category for theophylline 

message: Under "Categorization of selected agents" there is no US "A" mark. Are there no drugs in group A in the US? 212.29.231.179 (talk) 14:14, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There are several, but not a huge many examples of Cat A in the US.   I believe that doxylamine and mag sulfate are category A in the US...   --98.70.44.88 (talk) 19:54, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Categorization of selected agents"