Women prescribed drugs linked to birth defects not often advised to use birth control

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Although prescription medications that may increase the risk of birth defects are commonly used by women in their childbearing years, only about half receive contraceptive counseling from their health-care providers, according to a large-scale study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study found that one in six women of reproductive age filled a prescription for a medication labeled by the FDA as increasing the risk of fetal abnormalities.

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