Guidelines: Pregnancy safe with epilepsy, but valproate should be avoided
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 06:14
in Health & Medicine
New guidelines developed by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society show it's relatively safe for women with epilepsy to become pregnant, but caution must be taken, including avoiding one particular epilepsy drug that can cause birth defects. The guidelines are published in the 27 April 2009, print issue of Neurology(R), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, and were presented 27 April 2009 at the Academy's Annual Meeting in Seattle...
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