Vivus resubmitted its new drug application for Qnexa in October with a contraindication for women of childbearing age, and is studying the impact of the drug in pregnant women and babies.
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Despite the label's warning that women of childbearing age should use birth control while on Qsymia, there are concerns that women will still get pregnant while on the drug.
Nearly half of women of childbearing age are overweight or obese in the UK and this means there are increasing numbers of obese pregnant women.
One in five children under five suffers from malnutrition, and one in ten women of childbearing age is anaemic.
Many women of childbearing age in Scotland are known to be deficient in key nutrients including iron, calcium, folate and vitamin D.
The New York State Department of Health says that women of childbearing age and children under 15 should not eat fish containing PCBs.
He said the proposal to immunise women of childbearing age with MMR was in line with practices in other countries and with World Health Organization recommendations.
Vivus has proposed a program to educate women of childbearing age about the risk of Qnexa and the need to use birth control while taking it.
They wanted to have a controlled launched and did not want it widely available because of the presence of topiramate and over concerns about women of childbearing age.
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More than half the women of childbearing age in India are anaemic a condition that can be much improved by fortifying food and 30% of Indian children are born underweight.
Women of childbearing age, for example, would probably be ineligible unless they happened to have been sterilised, or unless they routinely used two methods of birth control simultaneously and regularly had pregnancy tests.
The exact cause of spina bifida is unknown, but experts agree women of childbearing age can reduce the risk of their child getting this disease by getting enough folic acid (at least 400 micrograms) from leafy green vegetables, fruits, beans or supplements and vitamin B12 (2.8 micrograms), found in meat and eggs.
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