The widely used acne drug isotretinoin can cause severe birth defects and miscarriage, yet only about a third of women who use it are taking effective measures to avoid pregnancy, Canadian researchers say.
“When I first prescribed the drug in the 1980s we were quite afraid of the drug and very cautious,” Dr. David Henry from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto told Reuters Health. “I fear some of that has been lost through familiarity.”
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