Meetings & Education

Teratogen Updates

Teratogen Update Presentations

2025
Accelerating Clinical Development for Maternal-Fetal Health: Ensuring Access to Safe and Effective Medicines for All	65th Annual Meeting, June, 2025
2024
Everywhere All At Once: The Prenatal Chemical Exposome and Influences on Health and Health Inequities	64th Annual Meeting, June, 2024
2023
Teratology Research in the Shadow of the Dobbs Decision	63rd Annual Meeting, June 27, 2023
2022
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in the ECHO Program	62nd Annual Meeting, June 28, 2022
2021
Identifying New Human Teratogens: Revisiting Shepard's Criteria	Virtual 61st Annual Meeting, June 24, 2021
2020
From Dysmorphology to Next-Generation Phenotyping	Virtual 60th Annual Meeting, June 25, 2020
2019
Congenital Heart Defects Research: Finding the Hidden Crossroads Between Genetics and Environment	59th Annual Meeting, June 25, 2019 San Diego, California
2018
Progress against Malaria, the Role of Antimalarial Drugs, and Their Use in Pregnancy	58th Annual Meeting, June 26, 2018 Clearwater, Florida
2017
In Bed with the Devil: Recognizing Human Teratogenic Exposures	57th Annual Meeting, June 27, 2017 Denver, Colorado
2016
Preventing the Preventable: Where Do We Stand on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in 2016?	56th Annual Meeting, June 28, 2016 San Antonio, TX
2015
Genetic Mutations Cause Many Birth Defects: What We Learned from the FORGE Canada Project	55th Annual Meeting, June 30, 2015 Montréal, Québec, Canada
2014
Teratology and Public Health: Working Together to Make Recommendations for Pregnant Women in the Face of Uncertainty	54th Annual Meeting, July 2, 2014 Bellevue, Washington
2013
Definitive Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis Using Maternal Blood	53rd Annual Meeting, June 24, 2013 Tucson, Arizona
2012
Does Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Increase the Risk of Birth Defects?	52nd Annual Meeting, June 26, 2012 Baltimore, Maryland
2011
Update on Human Teratogens	51st Annual Meeting, June 26, 2011 Coronado, California
2010
Human Teratogens: Update 2010	50th Annual Meeting, June 28, 2010 Louisville, Kentucky
2009
Human Teratogens: The Year in Review	49th Annual Meeting, June 28, 2009 Puerto Rico
2008
Human Teratogens: The Year in Review	48th Annual Meeting, June 30, 2008 Monterey, California

Teratogen Update Publications

Informative articles on important subjects published in Birth Defects Research arranged by year. All articles are Adobe Acrobat files.

2002
Antithyroid Drugs - Methimazole, Carbimazole, and Propylthiouracil	Orna Diav-Citrin and Asher Ornoy
Azathioprine and 6-Mercaptopurine	Janine E. Polifka and J. M. Friedman

2001
Lyme Disease	Daniel J. Elliott, Stephen C. Eppes, and Joel D. Klein
Inorganic Arsenic	John M. DeSesso
Evaluation of the Reproductive and Developmental Risks of Caffeine	Mildred S. Christian and Robert L. Brent
Reproductive Risks of Leflunomide (Arava™); A Pyrimidine Synthesis Inhibitor: Counseling Women Taking Leflunomide Before or During Pregnancy and Men Taking Leflunomide Who Are Contemplating Fathering a Child Robert L. Brent

2000
Maternal myasthenia gravis as a cause of congenital arthrogryposis	A. Polizzi, S.M. Huson, and A. Vincent

1999
Thalidomide: a review, with a focus on ocular findings and new potential uses	Marilyn T. Miller and Kerstin Strõmland
Paternal exposures - reproductive risks	Jacquetta M. Trasler and Tonia Doerksen
Radiation and chernobyl	Frank P. Castronovo Jr.
Methylene blue	Janet D. Cragan

1998
Gestational effects of maternal hyperthermia due to febrile illnesses and resultant patterns of defects in humans	John M. Graham Jr., Matthew J. Edwards, and Marshall J. Edwards
Congenital rubella	William S. Webster

1997
Fetal effects of indomethacin administration during pregnancy	Mary E. Norton
Smoking and reproductive outcomes	Martha M. Werler
Iodine deficiency, a community teratogen	Joseph G. Hollowell Jr. and W. Harry Hannon
Polychlorinated biphenyls	Joseph L. Jacobson, and Sandra W. Jacobson
Toluene	Louise Wilkins-Haug

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