Posts tagged Birth Injuries

• Pregnant Woman Warned Against Use Of Paxil

  David Lowe | November 30, 2006 10:09 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Pregnant woman are being urged to avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of the risk of birth defects. A committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has issued the warning based on two separate studies showing that children born to women taking Paxil during their first trimester have experienced nearly twice the incidence of heart defects.In December 2005, the...

• Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Report Released

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2006 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Jeff Guzman at Napoli Bern in NY posts about the release of the most recent edition of Child Neurology which argues that, contrary to claims by obstetricians, the majority of brachial plexus injuries do not occur in utero.Jeff notes that most studies of brachial plexus injuries are done in adults, where injuries usually take several days to be apparent via EMG.However, the textbook of Child...