Most Drugs Aren’t Tested On Or Approved For Pregnant Women, Analysis Shows.

reports that “when it comes to drug safety, pregnancy is a largely research-free zone, women’s health experts say.” Only eight drugs “are currently approved by the FDA for prenatal use; from 1995 to 2011, the agency OK’d only one pregnancy-related drug.” Almost all drugs prescribed to pregnant women ares off-label. As a result, treatment for pregnant women “often is based on informed guesswork rather than solid evidence, in which medications that have never been approved for use during pregnancy, and whose long-term dangers may not be known, become the standard of care,” such as Zofran (ondansetron) for morning sickness. https://www.propublica.org/article/most-drugs-not-tested-pregnant-women-anti-nausea-cure-why-thats-a-problem