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taking the drug during pregnancy. sodium valproate was first prescribed in the uk in the 19705. patients were warned that there was a small chance of spina bifida. but it wasn't until 2005, that the risks of taking the drug during pregnancy were clearly listed on the patient information leaflet, which should come with a prescription. we've now discovered new evidence showing information about the extent of malformations notified by sanofi to health regulators, that weren't passed on to patients between 1994 and 2005. 547 reports in total, which would also have been passed on to the uk's health regulator. the table represents widespread complications that mothers and their children have had from taking sodium valproate during pregnancy. there's been a significant delay between the evidence of these complications, which are shown in the table, and actually, action from our regulators. and in that period, many women have