Reducing Epilepsy Drug Doses Key to cutting Birth Defects

Melissa Healy, LA Times science and medicine reporter

Pregnant women who took the anti-seizure drug valproate during pregnancy increased the odds that their baby would have autism, and were roughly twice as likely to give birth to a child who would go on to be diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, according to a large study that captured ten years of births in Denmark.

Read Epilepsy drug in pregnancy linked to baby’s higher autism risk, by Melissa Healy, 24 April 2013

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