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Liability Risk and Insurance

Question over sodium valproate

Twenty mothers have won legal aid to launch a negligence action against health authorities (others expected to join) over the effects on their unborn infants of sodium valproate (brand name Epilim), an anticonvulsant drug for those with epilepsy.

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