No Significant Danger of Birth Defects Seen With Antipsychotic Drugs

By contrast, overall use of typical antipsychotics was linked with a small, non-significant boost in congenital malformations, even prior to changing for confounders, the scientists wrote in JAMA Psychiatry. This brand-new research study builds on Huybrechts …

See all stories on this topic Antipsychotic Use in Pregnancy and the Risk for Hereditary Malformations 1 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Health center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 2 Department of Public health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts