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In this chapter we review the detailed issues, questions and skills of risk communication in practice, relevant to medicines for all patients and then focus on challenges of communication with regard to a small selection of medicines for women: anticonvulsants in pregnancy, oral contraceptives, HPV vaccination and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
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A number of colleagues, friends and members of my family, kindly helped me in the development of this material and their support is gratefully acknowledged: Edinam Amavi, Priya Bahri, Pia Caduff-Janosa, Ralph Edwards, Anna Gabrielsson, Andrew Herxheimer, Jenny Hugman, Laura Hugman, Marie Lindquist, Nana Yaw Osei-Bediako, Czarina Baeta Ribeiro, Audrey Sainsbury, Ch. Supt Ellen Sam, Kristina Star.
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Hugman, B. (2015). Risk Communication and Specific Medicines for Women. In: Harrison-Woolrych, M. (eds) Medicines For Women. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12406-3_19
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