Good news for expectant mothers.  According to a new study from the Université de Montréal and Ste. Justine Hospital published in the May edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, expectant mothers can safely use prescribed antidepressants during their first trimester based upon a study on 2,329 new mothers.

The research team used data from the Quebec Pregnancy Registry, established by their group at least 30 days before pregnancy. Also included in the registry were women who delivered liveborn and stillborn children, while birth defects were considered anything from facial malformations to heart anomalies.

Dr. Anick Bérard and her team found that antidepressants have no effect on foetal development where they found no difference between mother who used antidepressan and those that did. Read the rest of this entry »

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May 2nd - Food and Drug Administration , otherwise known as FDA proposed that the antidepressant manufacturers shall include a warning of increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in young adults aged 18 to 24 during initial treatment on the existing black box of their products labeling.
FDA proposal is based on their internal committee’s finding on 77,000 adult patients with major depressive disorders.
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