“…Some of the best available studies are prospective, which, by their nature, minimize reporting and recall bias (a common challenge in pregnancy-related pharmacovigilance studies). Three such cohort studies have been published to date and all examined IFN-β exposure [12,13,25]. Of these, two had relatively large sample sizes (n = 69 [13] and 88 [12]), which also allowed for adjustment of important confounders (including gestational age, parity, socioeconomic status and smoking or alcohol use) to better estimate the true effect of IFN-β exposure.…”