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Chattanooga Physician’s Drug Treatment Could Be First To Fight Preeclampsia

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Published January 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM EST

Dr. David Adair, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Chattanooga, is working on a drug treatment that could save pregnant women’s lives.  Preeclampsia affects between five and eight percent of all pregnancies, and it’s currently an incurable, sometimes-deadly disease.  The FDA recently designated the new drug treatment for fast-track review.
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