Meetings & Education

Teratogen Updates

Teratogen Update Presentations

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
John M. DeSesso
Mildred S. Christian and
R
obert 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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