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...drug commonly used to prevent epileptic seizures may cause severe birth defects when taken by pregnant women, according to a study led by Harvard Medical School Professor of Pediatrics Lewis B. Holmes...
...pregnant women who took valproate—a widely-prescribed anti-convulsive drug—about 8.9 percent gave birth to babies with major deformations such as heart defects, spina bifida and kidney abnormalities, a figure more than five times greater than the birth-defect rate of women who did not take valproate...
Holmes directs the Harvard-based Anti-epileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry, a program started in 1997 that has recruited about 3,200 pregnant women in the United States and Canada as possible subjects for studies. Women from the registry were the subjects of this study...
...Shafer warned that pregnant women taking valproate should not immediately stop taking the drug, as they might suffer seizures, which can also harm a developing fetus...
...sides of this debate want information to be available so that pregnant women can make good decisions. Preventing that information from being available is wrong and should be discouraged. Unfortunately, even asking tutors to ask their students to stop tearing down posters has been less successful than hoped. On one floor in DeWolfe, posters were torn down nine times in two days while the proctors refused to lift a finger. The Quincy dining hall stairs frequently bear the remnants of posters torn down just a few minutes after being...