{"id":77934,"date":"2025-08-19T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77934\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:23:09","slug":"enquiry-opens-into-epilim-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77934\/","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":77935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-77934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}