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Learn more about your legal rights, finding a job, and staying healthy during stressful transitions from the Office on Women’s Health.

In honor of National Birth Defects Prevention Month, make a PACT to get healthy, physically and mentally, before and during pregnancy to increase your chances of having a healthy baby. Talking with a healthcare provider about medication use is an important step.

Learn about medications and pregnancy.

The journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety has published a new brief report: “Safe Lists for Medications in Pregnancy: Inadequate Evidence Base and Inconsistent Guidance from Web-based Information, 2011.” You can read the article’s abstract here. See below for a summary of the findings from this article.

Interim guidance to help clinicians determine when influenza antiviral agents should be used for chemoprophylaxis of close contacts of confirmed or probable cases of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) in the United States - CDC

Pregnant women should not stop or start taking any type of medication that they need without first talking with a doctor. Women planning to become pregnant should discuss any medication with their doctor before becoming pregnant.