3:30pm

Wed January 2, 2013
Health

Chattanooga Physician’s Drug Treatment Could Be First To Fight Preeclampsia

  • An interview with Dr. David Adair at Glenveigh Medical in Chattanooga, TN.

Dr. David Adair, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Chattanooga, is working on a drug treatment that could save pregnant women’s lives.  Preeclampsia affects between five and eight percent of all pregnancies, and it’s currently an incurable, sometimes-deadly disease.  The FDA recently designated the new drug treatment for fast-track review.