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- <text id=93TT1714>
- <title>
- May 17, 1993: Depressing Danger
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Depressing Danger
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Research suggests that drugs to lift the spirits may cause
- miscarriage
- </p>
- <p> Although many young women of childbearing age are treated for
- depression, no one is sure if it is safe for them to take their
- needed medication during pregnancy. A new study in the Journal
- of the American Medical Association provides a mixed answer.
- Researchers followed women who became pregnant while receiving
- therapy--either with Prozac, a relatively new and extremely
- popular drug, or tricyclic antidepressants, an older class of
- medication. Women in both groups bore the same small risk of
- having children with serious birth defects--which was no
- higher than it is for women in the general population. But both
- groups of women on antidepressant medication showed abnormally
- high rates of miscarriage. More study is needed to determine
- whether the medication or the depression could be bringing
- pregnancies to a premature end.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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