Happy New Year to all our long-term visitors, and welcome to all our new ones for 2007. And…drum roll, please…editor Greg Mulhauser welcomes his daughter Hannah Sophia into the world, born on Christmas morning.
According to Dr. Sandra Kweder, deputy director of the FDA’s Office of New Drugs, the agency will issue a public health advisory within days in response to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that links use of drugs like Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft late in pregnancy with a condition that can endanger infants’ lives.
Babies with low birthweights may be at greater risk of suffering symptoms of depression later in life, according to new research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Newborns weighing less than 5.5 lbs were 50 percent more likely to have anxiety and depression as adults.
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