SSRI impact could emerge in clinical trial
The results of a nearly completed clinical trial examining the prenatal effects of bupropion might also shed some light on the risks of exposing the fetus to a class of antidepressants known as...
View ArticleThe should have and could have of Paxil
Who knows how much the U.K. pharmaceutical corporation GlaxoSmithKline will pay in settlements and damage awards in 2013 to victims of the antidepressant Paxil? Even the corporation’s 2012 earnings...
View ArticleFrench, Swiss clinical trial explores antidepressants’ birth defects risk
Amid a debate about the existence of an association between certain antidepressants and birth defects, researchers based in Switzerland and in France are exploring the extent to which a baby, while...
View ArticleSSRIs can influence baby’s Apgar score
The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants increases the risk of a low score on a common test of an infant’s health, according to a study that will be published in 2013 in the...
View ArticleFDA reviews drug to treat condition linked to SSRI use
Ideally, expedited help is on the way for patients with “pulmonary arterial hypertension and persistent/recurrent chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after surgical treatment or inoperable...
View ArticleScientists perfectly clear (again) on SSRI antidepressant fetal risks
Replying to reader comments about their 2012 published study, Massachusetts-based researchers have reiterated in the April edition of the journal Human Reproduction three key findings about fetal...
View ArticlePrenatal antidepressant damage is significant
When the risk of harm from taking a prescription medication is beyond the pale of reasonability — frankly, the manufacturer should have known about it — and when the warning about such an increased...
View ArticleAutism joins PPHN, birth defects among Zoloft side effects
A Swedish study published this spring showed that in-utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors “was associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders, particularly without...
View ArticleEasier to reduce pregnancy risk than to treat antidepressant side effect
Although some medical science has shown an association between newborn pulmonary complications and the expectant mother’s use of certain antidepressants, not much information on the prevalence, origin...
View ArticlePaxil, Prozac birth defects link studied (Zoloft, other SSRIs not off the hook)
“It has been suggested that the commonly prescribed class of antidepressants selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are associated with birth defects,” and Prozac and Paxil are more strongly...
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