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birth defects
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Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Linked to Prozac, Celexa
Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects characterized by the malformation of the mouth when there is not enough tissue in the mouth during early fetal development.[1] This may occur…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Hiroko Tanaka Photo Essay on Effects of Agent Orange on Vietnamese Children
By joetort
CNN.com has a photo essay by Hiroko Tanaka showing deformed Vietnamese children whose conditions may stem from Agent Orange herbicide sprayed by the United States during the Vietnamese War. The story…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
Ventricular Septal Defects Linked to SSRI Use
A ventricular septal defect is a birth defect characterized by a small hole between the right and left ventricles of the heart that does not close after birth as it normally…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
Study Shows Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Leads to More Birth Defects
In 2010, a Danish study published in the medical journal Clinical Epidemiology set out to evaluate the danger posed to infants born to mothers who used selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
SSRI Use during Pregnancy Raises Risk of Serious Birth Defects
In a study published in a 2007 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Sura Alwan et al. evaluates the effect of maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
WebMD – Mothers Who Switch SSRIs During Pregnancy Place Newborns at Risk of Heart Defects
It has been recently found that babies of mothers who filled prescriptions for more than one SSRI during pregnancy were four times as likely to be born with septal heart…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
Zoloft® Side-Effects for Unborn Children May be Grave
By Jared Fink
A recent study by Carol Louik, et al. published in the New England Journal of Medicine has evaluated the risk of birth defects among infants born to mothers who used…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
SSRI Birth Defect – Gastroschisis
Gastroschisis is a congenital (from birth) malformation “in which an infant’s intestines stick out of the body through a defect on one side of the umbilical cord.”[1] Since at least…
Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices
SSRI Use during Pregnancy Places Infants at Risk for Birth Defects
By Jared Fink
Published in a 2011 edition of the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, a study by Dr. Heli Malm (et al.) evaluated the risk of birth defects for children born to…
Litigation & Trial
Forgetting The Lessons Of The Thalidomide Birth Defects Crisis
Few words convey the ability of modern medicine to do harm like “Thalidomide.” It wasn’t the first time that a supposedly harmless medicine wreaked havoc: in 1937, improperly prepared “Elixir…