Epilepsy drug used by pregnant women linked to lower IQ ...
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Women with epilepsy have more than usual to be worried about during pregnancy, as motherâs seizures can affect their developing fetusâ eventual IQ.
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PREGNANT women who take the anti-depressant Prozac may increase the risk of their children having mental problems. Scientists found that young mice given the drug grow up anxious and depressed.
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Researchers report that taking an antidepressant like Prozac may increase a pregnant womanâs risk of having a baby with a birth defect, but the chances appear remote and confined to a few rare defects.
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Treatment with the anti-seizure  drug gabapentin may improve the irritability seen in certain  children with neurologic impairments, researchers report in the  journal Pediatrics.
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NEW YORK  - A drug commonly used to arrest preterm labor, magnesium sulfate, works just as well as another commonly used drug, nifedipine, but is much more likely cause mild to serious side effects in pregnant women, a study shows.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- The epilepsy drug sodium valproate has been linked to children born with developmental delays and lower IQs, says research published in the current issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
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The chemical compound in the abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women's breast and ovarian cancers, researchers found.
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Doctors and their patients continue to face problems with a program designed to limit use of an acne medication that can cause birth defects if taken by pregnant women, a dermatology group said Monday.
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Taking methamphetamine whilst pregnant leads to underweight babies, US research suggests.
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Pfizer Inc. said on Monday that its  Lyrica epilepsy drug reduced the frequency of partial seizures  by as much as 53 percent when given as an add-on therapy to  other anti-epileptic treatments, according to a study in the  journal Neurology.
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By GRAEME SMITH  SCOTTISH scientists who have achieved a major breakthrough in the understanding of how the brain develops are warning that smoking cannabis during pregnancy could affect the unborn child.
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Children whose mothers were exposed  during pregnancy to common workplace chemicals scored lower on  tests measuring language skills, attention and memory,  researchers said on Monday.
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Taking GlaxoSmithKline Plc's  Lamictal epilepsy drug during the first three months of  pregnancy may increase the chances of having a baby with a  cleft lip or palate, U.S. regulators warned on Friday.
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A commonly used epilepsy drug is responsible for developmental problems and lower IQs in the children of women who take it during pregnancy, new research suggests today.
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Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors.
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Scientists link stress in pregnancy to a raised risk of schizophrenia in children.
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A key anti-HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) drug distributed in Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if they ignore doctors&#39; orders