Posts Tagged ‘ heart defects ’

Infographic: Depakote Birth Defects, Off-Label Marketing by the Numbers

March 1st, 2013. By AbiK

Recently, a small British study that was published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (1/30/13), suggested women who take valproate while pregnant have an increased risk of having children with autism and neurodevelopment problems. The study also suggested that damage to the fetus happens during the early stages of pregnancy.

Valproate-based anti-convulsants (drugs used to treat seizure disorders including epilepsy) include brand-name drugs Depakote, Depakene, Depacon and Stavzor–all of which are pregnancy risk Category D drugs. Category D drugs have shown positive evidence of fetal risk based on adverse reaction data from investigation or marketing experience or clinical studies in humans.

The Depakote infographic below highlights some of the potential adverse effects in newborns that have been associated with taking Depakote during the first trimester of pregnancy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tags: birth defects, Cleft Palate, Depacon, Depakene, depakote, Depakote lawsuit, depakote legal help, heart defects, spina bifida, Stavzor, valproate
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Pregnant? Don’t Take Paxil

March 12th, 2009. By janem

It is incomprehensible that Paxil is still on the market, almost 18 months after the FDA issued its warning about “early results of new studies for Paxil (paroxetine) suggesting that the drug increases the risk for birth defects, particularly heart defects, when women take it during the first three months of pregnancy.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: antidepressant paxil, heart defects, paxil, paxil and pregnancy
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