A teratogen is anything an individual is exposed to during pregnancy that causes an anomaly or malformation in the fetus. A teratogen can be a drug, chemical, substance, virus, or many other things.

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May 18, 2004 — Phenobarbital is significantly teratogenic, according to the results of a six-year registry of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) published in the May issue of the Archives of Neurology.

Nearly 50 years ago, an increasing number of babies worldwide were born with deformities and missing limbs. The babies had fallen victim to the teratogenic effects of thalidomide, a drug commonly ...

Teratogenic drugs cause birth defects by damaging the fetus or placenta or umbilical cord; or by causing uterine contractions. Teratogenic drugs can cause birth defects by- Damaging the fetus directly ...

However, overall prevalence of exposure to teratogenic medicines is low. (HealthDay News) — Pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive technology (ART) have a higher prevalence of exposure to ...

The study showed that with each increasing year of age, the odds of receiving contraceptive counseling decreased by 5%.

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NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) May 10 — Flying in the face of conventional wisdom, results from a meta-analysis presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting suggest that women with epilepsy ...

DURING a study of the teratogenic effects of heavy metals on mammalian embryos, we have been able to produce severe developmental malformations in golden hamster embryos by the intravenous injection ...

In a recent Birth Defects Research study, United States-based scientists determined that infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the first trimester of ...