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Antidepressants Can Raise Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
- The New York Times
04/09/2012 - Taking antidepressants during pregnancy raises the risk of high blood pressure in expectant mothers, a new study shows. Antidepressants are one of the most commonly used medications in pregnancy, and hypertension can cause problems for both mother and child. About one in five women suffer from depression during pregnancy, and up to 14 percent of those women end up using an antidepressant medication to treat it.
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Paxil: Anti-depressant (SSRI) causes pulmonary hypertension in newborns
- Health Destination
04/02/2012 - A Canadian study conducted recently has revealed that the anti-depressant Paxil are increasing the risk of having high blood pressure by 80 percent in pregnant women who take Paxil during their pregnancy and increases the risk of pulmonary hypertension in newborns.
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Antidepressant use during pregnancy increases risk of hypertension
- Examiner
03/27/2012 - Recent studies have reported the negative impact of maternal antidepressant use on their offspring; however, a new study has reported that it can also increase pregnancy risk for the mother. According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 11% of females in the county suffer from depression; thus, a significant number of LA women become pregnant while taking antidepressants.
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Antidepressants May Raise Risk for Pregnancy Complication
- U.S. News
03/23/2012 - Pregnant women taking the antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) face a slightly increased risk of developing dangerously high blood pressure, Canadian researchers report.
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Zoloft Birth Defect Cases May Be Remanded to State Court
- Ennis & Ennis
02/16/2012 - Last month Pfizer, the manufacturer of Zoloft, asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to create a Zoloft MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, for all Zoloft birth defect lawsuits filed in federal court.
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Antidepressants Two-Fold Risk To Babies In Pregnancy
- Bio-Hormone-Health
01/23/2012 - Pregnancy is when women are meant to bloom, and many do as the levels of progesterone rise. However for women who already have a history of depression and are taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as Paxil and Prozac, there is mounting evidence that they should be taken with extreme caution – if at all – during pregnancy because of the health risks they pose to their unborn babies.
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SSRIs During Pregnancey May Up Risk of Rare Disorder
- Psych Central
01/18/2012 - A new study warns that mothers who take a common class of antidepressant medication may increase the risk of giving birth to children with high blood pressure in the lungs. Swedish researchers say that while the risk is small, mothers who take a serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) late in pregnancy appear to double the risk in comparision with non-exposed cases.
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Antidepressants and pregnancy: What to do now
- FOX News
01/16/2012 - A recent research paper published in the British Medical Journal reported that taking serotonin reuptake antidepressants (SSRIs) like fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft) during the second half of a woman’s pregnancy could more than double the risk that babies will develop persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN). This finding supports a warning issued by the FDA during 2006 that alerted women that those taking SSRIs were six times more likely to deliver babies with PPHN.
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Mom Says Taking Zoloft Killed Her Newborn
- Courthouse News Service
10/05/2011 - Parents claim the anti-depressant Zoloft caused their newborn son to die of anencephaly - lack of a great part of his brain - 18 hours after he was born, and that Pfizer, the world's biggest drug company, covered up studies that documented the fatal side effect.
Susan and James Hodge sued Pfizer and Cardinal Health in the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas.
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HOW DID THESE BABIES DIE? Miscarriages, heart defects cited
- Kamloop
08/02/11 -To hear that two families in the Kamloops region are concerned an antidepressant might have contributed to the death of their newborns is not a surprise to one University of British Columbia researcher. Dr. Barbara Mintzes is an assistant professor of anesthesiology, pharmacology and therapeutics at the university and she has studied the effects of pharmaceutical drugs, like antidepressants, on pregnancy.
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Are Antidepressants Linked to Autism?
- ABC News Health
07/052011-In the study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers led by Lisa Croen of Kaiser Permanente Northern California reviewed the medical records of more than 1,600 children, 298 of whom had autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). They found that the risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder was about twice as high among women who took SSRIs in the year before delivery. That risk was even four times higher in women who took SSRIs during their first trimester. SSRIs include such well-known brands as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Celexa.
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Antidepressants linked to birth defects
- Examiner
06/20/2011 - Certain antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications taken during pregnancy, including Celexa, Effexor, Lexapro, Paxil, Zoloft, Pristiq, Prozac and Sarafen, have been linked to the presence of birth defects in newborns. These drugs are all SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), which boost mood by their action on the neurotransmitter serotonin.
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The Time To File A Paxil Birth Defect Claim Is Running Out
- 1888PressRelease
03/18/2010 - It appears that the time to seek compensation for birth defects allegedly caused by exposure to the antidepressant Paxil during pregnancy is running out. Court records indicate many cases have been resolved and have been removed from the docket. Parents who took Paxil during pregnancy and gave birth to a child with a congenital heart defect should act quickly to determine whether they my file a claim on behalf of their child.
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Hundreds of Lawsuits Claim Paxil Causes Birth Defects
- ParentDish
03/11/2010 - The makers of the antidepressant drug Paxil are facing an increasing number of lawsuits alleging the medication causes birth defects, and one family has already won a settlement of $2.5 million, online investigative news site The Public Record reports.
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Number Of Paxil-Related Birth Defect Cases Soar
-The Public Record
03/08/2010 - Since Paxil came on the market in 1992, there have been three separate types of failure to warn lawsuits filed against GlaxoSmithKline over Paxil; birth defects, suicide, and addiction. Roughly 150 suicide cases were settled for an average of about $2 million, and about 300 cases involving suicide attempts were settled for an average of $300,000, according to a December 14, 2009 report by Bloomberg News. Glaxo paid an average of about $50,000 each to resolve about 3,200 cases linking Paxil to addiction problems.
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Ghostbusting in Paxil Birth Defect Litigation
-Health Sentinel
03/03/2010 - A month before the first Paxil birth defect trial against GlaxoSmithKline was set to begin, the Associated Press ran the headline, "Glaxo Used Ghostwriting Program to Promote Paxil," in reporting on a program called "CASPPER," which allowed doctors to "take credit for medical journal articles mainly written by company consultants."
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Paxil Birth Defect Trial - Battle of the Experts
-by Evelyn Pringle
02/22/2010 - In the first Paxil birth defect trial that resulted in a $2.5 million verdict against GlaxoSmithKline in October 2009, the infant, Lyam Kilker, was born with three heart defects; an atrial septal defect, a ventricular septal defect, and an interrupted aortic arch, after his mother took Paxil while pregnant.
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Paxil Birth Defects Litigation – First Trial A Bust For Glaxo
-Health Sentinel
02/16/2010 - GlaxoSmithKline has paid out close to $1 billion to resolve lawsuits involving Paxil since the drug came on the market in1992, according to a December 14, 2009 Bloomberg report. But the billion dollars does not cover the more than 600 Paxil birth defect cases currently pending in multi-litigation in Pennsylvania.
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New SSRI warning: antidepressants increase risk of stroke and death
-NaturalNews
12/31/2009 - As NaturalNews previously reported the U.S. is a nation on mind altering antidepressant drugs. An astounding number of Americans, some 27 million, are now taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. As a handful of doctors and researchers tried to warn the medical community and the public over a decade ago when these drugs began to soar in popularity, SSRIs can affect the brain and body in a host of detrimental ways.
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Ennis & Ennis, P.A. Announces Nationwide Free Legal Consultations For Users of Paxil
-Ennislaw
12/16/2009 - Bloomberg news reported yesterday that GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of Paxil has paid almost $1 billion to resolve lawsuits over Paxil since it came on the market in 1993. GlaxoSmithKline, the largest U.K. drug maker has paid approximately $390 million for suicides and attempted suicides and another $200 million for birth defect and Addiction cases. Ennis & Ennis, P.A. will continue to investigate and offer free nationwide consultations for users of Paxil who have committed Suicide, Attempted Suicide, Addiction issues and women who have taken Paxil during the first trimester of pregnancy who have given birth to children with Birth Defects.
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GSK's $1B Paxil Problem Highlights Murky Disclosures From Euro Drug Companies
-BNET
12/15/2009 - British drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has paid $1 billion to settle lawsuits related to Paxil. The fact that it was disclosed by Bloomberg and not the company itself illustrates how lousy financial disclosure rules are in Europe and why drug companies based there cannot be trusted to tell the truth about what is going on with their litigation liabilities and, by extension, the safety of their drugs.
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Glaxo Said to Have Paid $1 Billion in Paxil Suits
-Bloomberg
12/14/2009 - GlaxoSmithKline Plc has paid almost $1 billion to resolve lawsuits over Paxil since it introduced the antidepressant in 1993, including about $390 million for suicides or attempted suicides said to be linked to the drug, according to court records and people familiar with the cases.
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GSK antidepressant Paxil to blame for baby's heart defects, US jury rules
-Telegraph
10/16/2009 - A US family has been awarded $2.5 million (£1.6 million) in damages after a Philadelphia jury decided that the antidepressant Paxil, known as Seroxat in Britain, was responsible for their son's birth defects. GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the British manufacturer of Seroxat, said it would appeal against the verdict in the case, which is the first of 600 such cases to come to trial.
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Glaxo Ordered to Pay $2.5 Million for Paxil Defects
-Bloomberg
10/13/2009 - GlaxoSmithKline Plc must pay $2.5 million over claims that its Paxil antidepressant caused birth defects, a Pennsylvania jury concluded in the first of 600 such cases to come to trial.
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Glaxo Ignored Paxil’s Birth-Defect Risks, Lawyer Says
-Bloomberg
10/09/2009 - GlaxoSmithKline Plc officials intentionally ignored the possibility that the Paxil antidepressant caused birth defects, a lawyer said in closing arguments of a trial over the drug.
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Depression Is a Dilemma for Women in Pregnancy
-The New York Times
10/06/2009 - When Sherean Malekzadeh Allen of Marietta, Ga., learned she was pregnant, she was 43, had been married for two years, had gone through two miscarriages and had all but given up hope of having a baby. But instead of being overjoyed, Ms. Allen was immobilized: panic-ridden, nauseated, listless and thoroughly depressed.
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Study Shows Small Risk of Heart Defect From SSRIs Taken During Pregnancy
-WebMD
09/25/2009 - New research adds to the evidence that babies born to women who take antidepressants during pregnancy have a small increased risk for a specific heart defect.
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Glaxo Linked Birth Defect of Fetus to Paxil, Ex-Executive Says
-Bloomberg
09/18/2009 - Officials of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the U.K.’s largest drugmaker, said in 2001 that a birth defect in the fetus of a woman taking its Paxil antidepressant likely was linked to the drug, according to court testimony.
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Trial opens here in Paxil lawsuit
-Philly Enquirer
09/17/2009 - GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. for years ignored evidence that its antidepressant Paxil may have caused birth defects, a lawyer told a Philadelphia jury today on behalf of a woman who says that taking the drug during her pregnancy caused her three year-old son's heart problems.
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Glaxo Executive’s Memo Suggested Burying Drug Studies
-Bloomberg
09/16/2009 - An executive of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, talked about burying negative studies linking its antidepressant drug Paxil to birth defects, according to a company memo introduced at a trial.
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