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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
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<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>
</body>
</article>
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