how to treat diabetes during pregnancy

September 2007

People are asking how to treat diabetes during pregnancy.

About 5% of pregnancies are in women who already have diabetes...or those who develop diabetes just while pregnant.

This increases the risk of preterm delivery and stillbirths.

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Table of Contents

vaccinating kids returning to school
Prexige (lumiracoxib) in the news
Gastroenterology Losec and Nexium might cause heart problems
Gastroenterology Humira is now officially approved by Health Canada to treat Crohn's disease
Gastroenterology Zelnorm (tegaserod) may come back
You'll soon see Campral (acamprosate) for alcohol dependence
Hematology & Oncology Sativex (Cannabis sativa extract) for patients with advanced cancer will help pain relief
Psychiatry Exelon (rivastigmine) in a once-daily PATCH
Diabetes whether patients with type 2 diabetes benefit from monitoring their blood glucose
Diabetes how to treat diabetes during pregnancy
Geriatrics misuse of the Beers criteria to determine drug therapy in the elderly
Infectious Diseases new HIV drug, Selzentry (maraviroc)
Smoking Cessation retailers to remove Resolve from shelves
Pediatrics new recommendations for using vaccines containing thimerosal