Updates to Prescribing Medicines in Pregnancy database, December 2022

TGA

The Prescribing Medicines in Pregnancy database has now been updated to include the following new entries:

  • asciminib hydrochloride – pregnancy category D
  • anifrolumab – pregnancy category C
  • bilastine – pregnancy category B3
  • bimekizumab – pregnancy category C
  • clobetasol – pregnancy category B3
  • difelikefalin – pregnancy category B1
  • diroximel fumarate – pregnancy category B3
  • dostarlimab – pregnancy category D
  • estetrol (as monohydrate) – pregnancy category B3
  • faricimab – pregnancy category D
  • influenza vaccine (seasonal; recombinant ) – pregnancy category B1
  • maribavir – pregnancy category D
  • mobocertinib succinate – pregnancy category D
  • osilodrostat – pregnancy category D
  • patisiran – pregnancy category D
  • pegcetacoplan – pregnancy category B3
  • pemigatinib – pregnancy category D
  • ponesimod – pregnancy category D
  • pneumococcal vaccine, polysaccharides conjugate – pregnancy category B1
  • rabies vaccine (inactivated) – pregnancy category B2
  • selumetinib – pregnancy category D
  • selinexor – pregnancy category D
  • somapacitan – pregnancy category B1
  • somatrogon – pregnancy category B1
  • sotorasib – pregnancy category B3
  • tepotinib – pregnancy category D
  • tixagevimab; cilgavimab – pregnancy category B2
  • trastuzumab deruxtecan – pregnancy category D
  • treosulfan – pregnancy category D
  • vosoritide – pregnancy category B2

The following entries have been amended:

  • COVID-19 Vaccine – ChAdOx1-S – pregnancy category from B2 to B1
  • COVID-19 Vaccine – elasomeran – change of name: COVID-19 Vaccine (mRNA)
  • COVID-19 Vaccine – tozinameran – change of name: COVID-19 Vaccine (mRNA)
  • pneumococcal vaccine, 23-valent polysaccharide or 10- or 13-valent conjugate – change of name: pneumococcal vaccine, capsular polysaccharides
  • COVID-19 Vaccine – SARS-CoV-2 rS (NVX-CoV2373) – change of name: COVID-19 Vaccine (recombinant protein)
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