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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The safety of a popular drug for seizures took another hit Wednesday when researchers pinned a handful of major birth defects on the medication.Earlier research had shown that taking Depakote (valproate) during pregnancy might lower the baby's ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who use the antidepressant bupropion during early pregnancy may have an increased risk of having a baby with a particular type of heart defect, a new study suggests.Researchers caution that it is not clear whether the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to a study presented this past Friday at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New study findings offer reassurance to pregnant women that acetaminophen does not appear to raise the risk of birth defects.Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol and certain other painkillers, and is often found in over-the-counter cold ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Here's another reason for pregnant women to take folic acid supplements: they help prevent fetal heart malformations, new research from the Netherlands suggests. "Given the relatively high prevalence of congenital heart defects worldwide, our findings are important ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found a higher rate of birth defects among babies conceived by assisted reproduction compared to babies conceived naturally.In the study, almost 3 percent of infants conceived with assisted reproduction were diagnosed with a ...
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