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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who take over-the-counter painkillers during early pregnancy have a slightly higher risk of having babies with certain rare birth defects, according to a new study.
For instance, babies were three times as likely to be born with no eyes, or with abnormally small eyeballs that often cause blindness, if their mothers had taken aspirin or ...
(Reuters) - The radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, a U.S. and Canadian study said.
Researchers, whose findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, said this was "reassuring" because some doctors have wondered if the powerful drugs and radiation ...
(Reuters) - The radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, a U.S. and Canadian study said.
Researchers, whose findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, said this was "reassuring" because some doctors have wondered if the powerful drugs and radiation ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents who inhale coal smoke at home may put their babies at increased risk of birth defects, Chinese researchers say.
Zhiwen Li and colleagues at the Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing found that the odds of having malformations of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects are 60 percent higher for children ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who take opioid painkillers such as codeine and oxycodone early in their pregnancy may be more likely to have a baby with a birth defect, according to a new study.
The link was only seen for some kinds of birth defects, however, and the overall risk remains small.
About 3 percent of babies born in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A headache medication for migraines increases the risk for birth defects in babies born to pregnant mothers taking the medication, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said new data shows the drug, sold generically and as Johnson & Johnson's Topamax, can cause cleft lips or cleft palate deformities.
Officials called on doctors ...
DENVER (Reuters) - A Safeway Inc. pharmacist mistakenly sold a pregnant Colorado woman a powerful anti-cancer drug that may cause birth defects or miscarriages, the grocery chain said on Tuesday.
Mareena Silva was six weeks pregnant when she went to a Safeway pharmacy in Fort Lupton, Colorado, last week to pick up a prescription for an antibiotic.
Instead, the 19-year-old woman ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's no link between pregnant women drinking water with a chemical linked to disinfectants and the rate of a particular male birth defect, says a study in today's issue of the journal Pediatrics.
The birth defect is hypospadias, where the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis instead of at ...
A vast toxic waste dump at the center of a birth defects controversy in Central California has been fined more than $300,000 for allowing cancer-causing chemicals to leach into the soil, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.
Residents near the Kettleman Hills dump previously ...
There's little benefit to parents or baby in learning before birth that a newborn will have a cleft lip/palate, a new study suggests.. Researchers led by Dr. James Robbins, of the Arkansas Center for Birth Defects and Prevention, interviewed 235 mothers of children aged 2 to 7 years with orofacial clefts (cleft lip or cleft lip and palate ...
