New Pregnancy Drug Labeling Proposed

U.S. drug regulators say we need a better way to tell women and their doctors about the risks of specific drugs during pregnancy. Therefore, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to scrap the current system, which gives each drug a letter grade. Drugs are grouped according to what research shows about their safety. The FDA wants to get rid of the letter grades. Instead, labels would have more information on pregnancy risks. The labels would say whether the research was done in people or animals. They also would say whether a drug is considered risky only during part of a pregnancy. The Associated Press wrote about the proposal May 29.