Atypical Antipsychotics
June 15, 2005 from ObGynNews by Lee S Cohen MD The reproductive safety of the older typical antipsychotics, such as haloperidol, is supported by extensive data that have accumulated over the past 40 years, at [...]
Neonatal Withdrawal Syndrome and SSRIs
March 15, 2005 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. Multiple articles over the past several years have cited perinatal symptoms in newborns whose mothers were taking an antidepressant late in pregnancy, including transient restlessness, [...]
Bipolar Disorder Drugs
December 2004, ObGyn News, By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. Two of the agents widely used to treat bipolar illness are established teratogens. Lithium is associated with a 0.05% risk of Ebstein's anomaly, a modest teratogenic [...]
Recent Antidepressant Label Changes
September 15, 2004 from ObGynNews by Lee Cohen, M.D. Physicians and patients may be alarmed by recent changes to the product labels of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and the selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor venlafaxine [...]
Fluoxetine Report Lacks Context
June 15, 2004 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. In April, the National Toxicology Program's Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, established by the NTP and the National Institute of Environmental [...]
SSRIs and Neonatal Neurobehavior
March 15, 2004 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. With increasing recognition and treatment of depression in women during their childbearing years, more patients and their physicians are faced with the dilemma of whether [...]
In Utero Antidepressant Exposure
December 1, 2003 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. Data on the risk of fetal malformations and adverse peripartum events associated with in utero exposure to antidepressants are reassuring, especially with regard to the [...]
Bipolar Disorder
September 1, 2003 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. As the use of anticonvulsants to treat bipolar illness has grown over the past decade, so has the number of women successfully treated with these [...]
Antidepressants
May 1, 2003 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. The increasing number of reproductive-age women who are on antidepressants has raised concerns about the potential risks of teratogenicity, perinatal toxicity, and the long-term neurobehavioral [...]
Eating Disorders
January 1, 2003 from ObGynNews By Lee S. Cohen, M.D. Eating disorders are highly prevalent in the general population, certainly more so in women, appearing to peak during the childbearing years. While we tend not [...]