Feeling Safer Yet?
Sep 29th, 2005 at 7:15 am by Susie
This is a dangerous drug, anyway:
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials have issued a warning about possible birth defects in infants born to women who take the antidepressant Paxil during the first trimester of pregnancy.
A study sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the drug’s maker, suggested that infants born to women taking Paxil were at about double the risk of birth defects compared with women taking other antidepressants. The most common defects were cardiovascular. The risks were about 50 percent higher than they were in the general population.
I remember the disaster that was caused by Thalidomide. And I can see why drug companies push their shit on anybody who will take it. But I don’t understand why doctors can’t put 2+2 together and stop feeding crap to pregnent women just because Big Pharma says its OK.