New Risk Found for Heart Medicine; After Use in First Trimester, Some Blood-Pressure Drugs Tied to More Birth Defects

• Published in: The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition
• Main Author: Seward, Zachary M
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, N.Y Dow Jones & Company Inc 08.06.2006
• Edition: Eastern edition
• Subjects: Birth defects; Blood pressure; Diuretics; Drug therapy; Fetuses; Health risk assessment; Hypertension; Medicine; Pregnancy; Prescription drugs; Womens health

In an accompanying editorial in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Jan M. Friedman, a geneticist at the University of British Columbia, expressed surprise that the first-trimester birth defects had taken so long to emerge. "This is not the last word on the subject," Dr. Frie...