FDA is reminding healthcare professionals and patients about an increased risk of birth defects in infants whose mothers took valproate sodium and related products during pregnancy. These drugs, which ...

Families of children harmed by a drug that caused up to 20,000 babies to be born with disabilities have welcomed calls for compensation after their plight was compared to the thalidomide scandal. The ...

More than 100,000 women are believed to have had mesh implants fitted between 2007 and 2015 Families of children left disabled by an epilepsy drug and women injured by pelvic mesh implants should be ...

The FDA warns against healthcare providers giving anti-seizure medications valproate sodium, valproic acid and divalproex sodium to pregnant women for migraine prevention, according to the American ...

The introduction of a stricter approval process for prescribing an anti-seizure drug that can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy has been effective at reducing the number of prescriptions ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has instructed healthcare organisations to immediately institute a plan for implementing the first phase of new regulatory measures to ...

Other effective medicines are available for epilepsy and bipolar disorder and valproate should only be used if these don’t work or aren’t suitable for an individual patient. Image Credit: Medicines ...

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued an update on PIP (Personal Independence Payment). The news was released in a statement to MPs in Parliament about a treatment that has led to birth ...

Lithium carbonate and valproate sodium are each recommended as monotherapy for preventing relapses in patients with bipolar disorder and are sometimes used in combination. However, combination therapy ...

In this report the authors “hypothesized” that valproate “may act upon” corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) systems in the brain, though no direction of effect was predicted. Moreover, the data ...