Is it moral for someone who has narcolepsy to deliberately become pregnant?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/ki-ndd090120.php
News Release 1-Sep-2020
Karolinska Institutet
Modafinil is used to treat conditions such as narcolepsy. Reports have associated the drug with an increased risk of malformation in babies born to mothers who had taken it while pregnant. Now, a large registry study involving over two million pregnant women in Sweden and Norway shows that there is no such association. The study, which is published in JAMA, was conducted by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
"This study is based on twice as many pregnancies as earlier studies, and we find no increase in the risk of malformation in infants exposed to modafinil during pregnancy," says the study's lead author Carolyn Cesta, researcher at the Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medicine in Solna.
Modafinil is used to improve wakefulness in adults with narcolepsy, MS-related fatigue and, sometimes, ADHD.
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