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New morning sickness drug could prevent abortions
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New morning sickness drug could prevent abortions
In good news for mothers and unborn babies, a new drug for combating severe morning sickness has been licensed in Britain. Around 80 per cent of pregnant women report some kind of morning sickness and up to 2 per cent will be diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form likened to the nausea caused by chemotherapy and from which the Duchess of Cambridge suffered. In final clinical trials Xoneva was found to reduce the amount of nausea by two thirds and cut the number of episodes of sickness from four a day to just one.