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Male Infant Death More Likely
Boys have about a 20 percent higher chance of dying by the age of one than girls, according to research released Monday. Though the gap has lessened in the past decades because of medical practices like increased Caesarean sections and intensive care units for premature babies, there is still a disparity between the genders...

Some Antidepressant Use May Lead to Bone Loss
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a commonly prescribed class of anitdepressants, have been linked to bone loss in older men and women in three new studies.

Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes Linked to Higher Risk of Birth Defects
US News & World Report/HealthDay News: Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes Boosts Risk for Birth Defects: Women who develop diabetes before they become pregnant are three to four times more likely than non-diabetic women to have a baby with at least one birth...

Epilepsy Drug Topamax Linked to Birth Defects
The Los Angeles Times reports on a study of 203 pregnant women that finds a connection to an anti-epilepsy drug, topiramate, that raises the risk of birth defects. Experts caution that the group is too small to draw definitive results...

Increase in Preemie Births Linked to C-Sections
LEARN MORE June issue of Perinatology The March of Dimes  Injuryboard on premature infant drugs Injuryboard on children's health matters Injuryboard on SIDS   IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ premature baby in incubator, Iraq, September 2004/ U...

On-Line Resource Helps Determine "Extremely Preterm Birth Outcome Data"
NY Times: New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants, by Denise Grady: Researchers are reporting that they have developed a new way to help doctors and parents make some of the most agonizing decisions in medicine, about how much...

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Birth Injury - Birth Injury Malpractice, Birth Injury Lawyer, Birth Injury Claims
Birth Injury alleging injuries resulting at birth from medical malpractice or negligence.

Dysport
Linked to Severe Birth Defects

Male Birth Defect
Linked to Hairspray Exposure

Celexa
allegedly linked to birth defects persistant pulmonary hypertension PPHN

Paxil Birth Defects
alleging link to the birth defect persistant pulmonary hypertention in the newborn (PPHN) and infant death.

SSRI Birth Defects
allegedly causing birth defects, including heart defects and PPHN.