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Due to recent reports by the NAAED Pregnancy Registry, a registry designed to track the influences of anticonvulsant drugs on mothers and their unborn children, the FDA has revised the pregnancy category rating of popular migraine and seizure medication Topamax (also known as Topagen or topiramate) to a class D drug.
Class D rating for a drug by the FDA means that there is significant evidence that the drug can cause malformations or harm to a human fetus if taken by the mother during pregnancy. Topamax during pregnancy is of specific concern due to its link to the development of cleft palate birth defects.
Topamax cleft palate as well as other oral-facial clefts such as cleft lip, have been the birth defect most reported with use of Topamax. As a result, the FDA has required the makers of Topamax to add these birth defects to the label, of which they were absent prior to the warning and class change. Due to the fact that women were taking Topamax and were unaware of these harmful side effects, many are turning to the advice of Topamax attorneys who can advise on the future of Topamax lawsuits and how they might be able to garner compensation for their child's birth defects.
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Spina bifida is a neural tube birth defect which is allegedly linked to the epilepsy medication Dilantin when taken during pregnancy. Dilantin neural tube birth defects are believed to occur during the first three weeks of fetal development and involve the failure of the spinal cord to fully close during development. This results in a birth defect which can leave a child permanently disabled for life.
Epilepsy Action at the Ealing Half Marathon 2013 www.epilepsy.org.uk/involved/fundraise-events/running/hal...
Epilepsy Action at the Ealing Half Marathon 2013 www.epilepsy.org.uk/involved/fundraise-events/running/hal...
Epilepsy Action at the Ealing Half Marathon 2013 www.epilepsy.org.uk/involved/fundraise-events/running/hal...
Epilepsy Action at the Ealing Half Marathon 2013 www.epilepsy.org.uk/involved/fundraise-events/running/hal...
The Pediatric Epilepsy Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital is built upon a team of experienced physicians and health care professionals with special expertise in epilepsy from infancy through adolescence.
To learn more about the Epilepsy Center, visit www.stlouischildrens.org/our-services/epilepsy-center/mee....
Epilepsy Action at the Ealing Half Marathon 2013 www.epilepsy.org.uk/involved/fundraise-events/running/hal...