Antidepressants During Pregnancy Raise Risk of Birth Defects, Doctors Tell FDA

Antidepressants During Pregnancy Raise Risk of Birth Defects, Doctors Tell FDA

The FDA needs to do a better job of warning pregnant women that taking SSRIs,…

Children's Health Defense

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to do a better job of warning pregnant women that taking SSRIs, a type of antidepressant, may harm them and their developing baby, doctors told the agency Monday.

The FDA hosted an expert panel of developmental biologists, psychiatrists, epidemiologists, obstetricians and mental health experts who discussed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and pregnancy. The agency livestreamed the two-hour conversation on YouTube and X.

SSRIs have been “implicated in different studies to be involved in postpartum hemorrhage, pulmonary hypertension and cognitive downstream effects in the baby, as well as cardiac birth defects,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, who opened the event…

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