{"id":79876,"date":"2025-08-19T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79876\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:18:10","slug":"enquiry-opens-into-epilim-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79876\/","title":{"rendered":"Enquiry opens into epilim prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A non-statutory enquiry has been opened into the prescription of epilim, an epilepsy drug that was given to some women in Ireland during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The drug contains sodium valproate, and since the 1970s, it has been known that this ingredient can harm babies in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>According to local Sinn F\u00e9in TD Rose Conway Walsh, mounting evidence has shown that this drug can cause harm to unborn babies, which can result in autism and other disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Conway Walsh has been speaking to Midwest Radio\u2019s Rian Bailey about the enquiry, and first explained the origins of the drug:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ROSEEPILIM.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ROSEEPILIM.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A non-statutory enquiry has been opened into the prescription of epilim, an epilepsy drug that was given to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-79876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}