The efficacy of the newer antiepileptic drugs in controlling seizures in pregnancy

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Funding Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge the help of our medical and nonmedical colleagues, both in referring patients and in increasing patient awareness of the Register. We thank the Scientific Advisory Board and the Ethical Research Committees of St. Vincent's Hospital, Monash Medical Centre, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and other institutions for their ethics assessments of the study. The Australian Register is grateful for support from the Epilepsy Society of Australia, The Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation, The Victorian Epilepsy Foundation, Epilepsy Australia, and also for financial support from a number of pharmaceutical companies, including Sanofi-Aventis, UCB Pharma, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, and Sci-Gen, from the Victorian Epilepsy Foundation, and from a National Health and Medical Research Council linkage grant.