Epilepsy drug causes bone loss in young women
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Young women who took the commonly used epilepsy drug phenytoin for one year showed significant bone loss compared to women taking other epilepsy drugs, according to a study published in the 29 April 2008 issue of Neurology(R), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology...
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