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New Drug Labels to Aid Pregnant, Nursing Women

Women and doctors around the world soon will have clearer information on prescription medicines and how they impact fertility, a fetus and a baby that is nursing.

In the United States, women take between three and five prescription drugs during their pregnancy, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Other women on prescription drugs want to breastfeed their babies. Millions of other women are trying to conceive.

While the drugs might be needed to control anything from high blood pressure to mental illness, they might harm a developing fetus or a nursing baby.

Until now, a grading system classified drugs with letters — A, B , C, D and X, with A being the least risky, X being the most. But the March of Dimes medical director Dr. Edward McCabe, says it will be confusing, said the system "was not informing either the consumers or professionals."

Abilify, a drug used to help people with bipolar disorder, is a grade C drug, but no where on its container doesn't say this, and there are no studies in humans that show what effect this drug might have on a fetus or a nursing baby.

In an online press release, the FDA said the five-letter system would be replaced by new labels with more detailed, up-to-date information so doctors can help their patients make better choices about the risks of certain drugs before and during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.

McCabe said he that welcomed the FDA's new ruling but that what's really needed are more clinical trials and more research.

"We need to recognize that research benefits individuals. Not doing research on pregnant women, women of childbearing age, does a disservice to them," he said. "There is a risk of not knowing information and we need to work and see how we can do this safely, but then once we’ve determined that it is safe, if a drug is being used in pregnant women, we should be studying it."

Dr. McCabe said that for many drugs, we don't have the information we need to make good choices.

詞匯解析

justify

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

vt.替 ... 辯護(hù)；證明 ... 正當(dāng)；調(diào)整版面

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用作及物動詞 (vt.)

He had to justify himself for his conduct.

他不得不為自己的行為辯白。

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saint

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.圣人；圣徒

vt.把 ... 封為圣人

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用作名詞 (n.)

They named their child after the saint.

他們用圣人的名字來給他們的孩子命名.

用作及物動詞 (vt.)

Confucian doctrine exerted a profound influence on later ages, so Confucius is addressed respectfully as a saint.

孔子的儒家學(xué)說對后世影響深遠(yuǎn)，因而他被世人尊為圣人。

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avoid

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

vt.避免；逃避；[律]使無效；撤銷

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用作及物動詞 (vt.)

You should avoid unnecessary repetition.

你應(yīng)避免不必要的重復(fù)。

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recover

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

v.恢復(fù)；復(fù)原；重獲

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用作動詞 (v.)

He's now fully recovered from his stroke.

他現(xiàn)已從中風(fēng)病完全康復(fù)了。

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conference

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.會議；討論會；協(xié)商會；會談

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用作名詞 (n.)

An international conference will be held in Beijing next month.

一個國際性的會議下月將在北京舉行。

We are all fully confident that the conference will be a great success.

我們都有充分的信心,這次會議將會非常成功。

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largely

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adv.大部分；主要地

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用作副詞 (adv.)

The farming area is centered largely in the south.

農(nóng)業(yè)區(qū)大部分集中在南方。

However, in the East, there were many solar deities, including the Greek Helios, who was largely displaced by Apollo.

然而，在東方，有很多太陽神，包括希臘的太陽神，主要地是以阿波羅來命名。

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conservation

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.保存；保護(hù)；守恒；節(jié)約

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用作名詞 (n.)

If I may refer back to the problem we discussed, I think we shall stress on the conservation of our natural resource.

請允許我重提我們剛才討論過的問題，我想我們應(yīng)該強(qiáng)調(diào)保存我們的自然資源。

Who discovered the conservation of energy?

誰發(fā)現(xiàn)了能量守恒？

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