What Doctors Don't Tell YouAccutane (generic name: isotretinoin; also sold as Rocaccutane) is medicine’s biggest gun in the war on acne. A prescription acne medication derived from vitamin A, it’s been distributed by Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals since its approval in...
Depressing news for the manufacturers of Paxil (paroxetine): new studies suggest that the antidepressant increases birth defects - particularly of the heart - when taken by pregnant women during the first trimester.
Doctors still haven't got it right about folic acid in pregnancy. ...
Women who are exposed to organic solvents while they are pregnant have a 13 fold risk of giving birth to a baby with a serious congenital malformation, such as spina bifida. The women who are at g ...
Measuring weight gain during pregnancy might prove to be a largely redundant exercise, at least in determining whether the baby is growing well for its age. ...
Additional side-effects of angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) include:
The very young and pregnant women are two groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. Trials have never been carried out to discover the biochemical effects on such a small and developing body, or on a fetus.
Women who suffer nausea in the early stages of pregnancy can be helped by a daily treatment of acupressure, a study from San Francisco has concluded. ...
Some cases of heart disease may have their roots in prenatal life depending on what the mother does or, more importantly, does not eat. ...
Routine ultrasound screening of pregnant women does nothing to reduce the number of perinatal deaths, or improve pregnancy management or outcome, according to a study of 2600 women. ...
