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| Hale's Medications and Mothers' Milk 2025-2026: A Manual of Lactational Pharmacology, 21st Edition |
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ISBN: 978-0-8261-0020-7,
686 pages,
Soft Cover
ISBN-10: 0-8261-0020-1 |
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| Copyright: |
2025 |
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21st |
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| Author: |
Hale, Thomas W., PhD; Krutsch, Kaytlin, PhD, PharmD |
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Pharmacology, Neonatology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal/Child, Perinatal, Pharmacology |
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Springer Publishing Company |
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11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor |
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New York, NY 10036-8002 |
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UNITED STATES |
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P: 2124314370
F: cs@springerpub.com |
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http://www.springerpub.com |
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| List Price: |
$85.00 |
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At A Glance
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Hale's Medications and Mothers' Milk is the ultimate resource for safe medication practices during breastfeeding. This meticulously updated edition offers the most current, evidence-based information available, maintaining its reputation as the definitive standard for medication safety in lactation. Written by world-renowned clinical pharmacologists, the detailed manual helps lactation consultants, pharmacists, and healthcare providers who work with women and children weigh the relative risks associated with commonly used medications, drawing from the latest evidence-based studies. Structured for quick and efficient use, this guide features Dr. Thomas W. Hale's renowned Lactation Risk Categories (LRC), which provide essential insight, listing safe medication alternatives that can be used now or in the future. The manual is intuitively organized to highlight key points, offer practical tips, and present easy-to-understand diagrams, common abbreviations, and concise information for evaluating infant health. This indispensable resource helps healthcare professionals to ensure the safety and well-being of both mother and infant. Embrace the peace of mind that comes with having reliable, expert-vetted knowledge at your fingertips. To ensure you always have the most current information, consider our online or mobile app subscription! Visit halesmeds.com to get started today. New to the 2025-2026 Edition: - 66 new drugs
- 10 drugs with FDA updates
- 575 updated medications (formerly medications updated with new information)
- 84 existing drugs with updated LRCs
Key Features: - Delivers current, evidence-based information on 1,300 drugs, diseases, vaccines, and syndromes in alphabetical order
- Provides critical updates on weight loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic, heart failure drugs such as Entresto, medications for anxiety, postpartum depression, and much more
- Incorporates updates to Dr. Hale's world-renowned Lactation Risk Categories (LRC)
- Discusses adult concerns, adult dose, pediatric concerns, infant monitoring, and drug alternatives
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Reviewer:
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Rebeca Barroso,
DNP, MSN
(Saint Catherine University)
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Rebeca Barroso,
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Description
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| This updated drug reference book is the gold standard on the safe use of medications for breastfeeding mothers. The most current edition, updating the 2023 edition, contains the latest available evidence and provides updated infant-risk information on over 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications, including herbal medicines, in conjunction with associated diseases and syndromes. |
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Purpose
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| The purpose of this evidence-based book is to serve as the definitive go-to pharmacological safety reference source for consultants, clinicians, counselors, and educators providing care to breastfeeding mothers and their infants. |
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Audience
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| The intended audience is lactation consultants, but the content is also of interest to nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and midwifery students and faculty. |
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| Central to the book's intent is to provide the necessary information to determine the risk to the infant from maternal medication use. The book begins with a preface that introduces concepts and nomenclature used throughout the book. A subsequent How to Use This Book section provides explanations on the book's framework in providing the generic and trade names for each drug, including trade names from other parts of the world. The book includes a complete listing of Dr. Hale's Lactation Risk Categories (LRCs) and the specifics of the nomenclature used throughout the book, including not widely known acronyms. The drugs are alphabetically listed thereafter using different font sizes, colors, and background shading to assist in locating, reading, and absorbing the provided content. Each drug is framed within its category or "family of drugs" to provide a general pharmacological mechanism of action and most probable drug uses. For each medication under consideration, adult concerns, adult dose, pediatric concerns, infant monitoring, alternatives, and references are provided. |
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| Dr. Hale's work on behalf of advancing knowledge on the transfer of medications into breastmilk has been continuous since the late 1980s. This book series continues to evolve, with updated editions every two years, offering information on the newest drugs, medication information with the latest data, and Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and LRC updates. There is no comparable one-stop, evidence-based, comprehensive source of lactational pharmacology for professionals educating, counseling, and advising breastfeeding mothers. |
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