Safety of Antidepressant Use in Pregnant and Nursing Women

Article Abstract:

Antidepressant drugs taken during pregnancy and while breastfeeding appear to be safe for the fetus and infant. The use of antidepressants during pregnancy exposes the fetus to the drugs, but it may prevent more serious complications of untreated maternal depression. Fetuses receive near-therapeutic doses of antidepressant drugs when they are taken in pregnancy, but there is no indication that neurological or behavioral problems result. Half of depressed women will have a relapse if they stop taking antidepressant drugs during pregnancy. Antidepressant drugs only pass in very low concentrations into breast milk. Sleep deprivation, especially achieved by awakening early, can also effectively alleviate depression.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Complications and side effects, Fetus, Drug therapy, Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Pregnant women, Antidepressants, Sleep deprivation

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Body as art inspires body of art

Article Abstract:

The Human Body Revealed, an exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) through mid-August 2005, offers novel views of the body's internal landscape, views that cannot be seen in real life, although they are anatomically accurate even at the cellular level. In some works, transparent skin or cut-away views expose organs, blood vessels, muscles, and bones from a nearly three-dimensional perspective.

Exhibitions, Body, Human, Human body, National Museum of Health and Medicine

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