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Pregnancy and drugs

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October 23, 2011

Virtually all drugs cross the barrier and reach the fetus plancentaire. Certain substances (including alcohol) are particularly dangerous in early pregnancy which is the phase of development of members and internal organs. Researches on the teratogenic (causing birth defects) drugs are relatively limited. Not to take risks, most doctors recommend that pregnant women not to [...]

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Neuroleptics

Neuroleptics

Neuroleptics are drugs that are part of psychopharmacology that is to say that they can act on a psychic state. There is talk of psychosis when the subject has a misperception of reality with illusions, delusions and often hallucinations. It uses two types of drugs in psychosis, neuroleptics and antidepressants. The first act in all [...]

Drugs for attention deficit disorder: double risk of heart problems

Drugs for attention deficit disorder: double risk of heart problems

A U.S. committee concluded that some drugs used to treat attention deficit especially in children (such as Ritalin, known as Ritalin Ritalin in Latin America and Spain) must carry a warning on the packaging warning that they may present a risk of death. That warning will be presented in a black box. Box in the [...]

Anti-diabetic, insulin

Anti-diabetic, insulin

Antidiabetics are the drugs used by diabetics to control blood sugar in the blood (glucose). In type II diabetes, the most common, and appears especially in adulthood, the body produces the insulin but can not use it properly. In type I diabetes, which often occurs before 30 years, the pancreas stops producing insulin, the hormone [...]


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