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...pregnant woman who has ever cracked open a medicine cabinet is familiar with the warnings against using nearly every kind of medication, including those sold over the counter, from the moment of conception onward. Yet each year in the U.S., some 500,000 pregnant women battle psychiatric illness, cancer, autoimmune disease, influenza and other conditions that require treatment. Leaving aside for a moment the issue of whether the benefits of certain drugs outweigh the risks to the baby, what is the appropriate dosage for a mom-to-be? Given the shifts in her metabolism, how much she should take...
Chronic illnesses like depression, diabetes and hypertension don't magically disappear during pregnancy. And as women delay childbearing, more moms-to-be are struggling with cancer. So it's hardly surprising that two-thirds of women take up to five drugs over the course of their pregnancy and labor. Yet only a dozen prescription drugs are approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during pregnancy, and they're all pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for example, or epidural anesthesia. Which means patients with many common conditions face an excruciating dilemma: decline medication whose effects...
...whom doctors delivered five weeks early to spare him an additional round of chemotherapy, is now in fifth grade and is "just a regular boy" who plays football and in-line hockey and has a yen for adventure novels, says his mom, who just celebrated her 10th year cancer-free...
...athletics and academics during her time at Harvard. Hoping to attend medical school, the Pittsburgh, Pa. native studied neurobiology at the College, and worked to complete the pre-med curriculum. Outside of lab and lectures, Joo stayed involved in the medical community as a member of the Harvard Cancer Society, with which she regularly volunteered at Massachusetts General Hospital. But Joo’s other passion was rugby, the rough-and-tumble sport that her friends said she embraced. “The one thing that I feel most summed her up is that she never backed down from...
...with some harebrained scheme to entertain and distract his friends, they said. The aspiring oncologist passed away in early October at the age of 19, bringing an end to his four-and-a-half year battle with desmoplastic small round cell tumor, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Friends and family said that Friedman exuded brightness—both in his intellect and his personality. His optimism even in the face of a bleak prognosis was the first trait noted by all who spoke of him. Robert B. Schaaf ’11, one of Mikey?...