Navigating medication safety during pregnancy can feel overwhelming when you’re dealing with uncomfortable symptoms but want to protect your growing baby. The good news is that many medications are ...

Two common antiseizure medications, lamotrigine and levetiracetam, are safe to use during pregnancy, according to a Stanford Medicine-led study. The research, which was published online Nov. 25 in ...

Although the use of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and other antidiabetic medications continues to increase among pregnant women with type 2 diabetes, current evidence suggests no ...

A new study that examined older and newer medications to treat seizures has found that using some medications during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of malformations at birth, or birth ...

Children of mothers who took certain antiseizure medications while pregnant do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6, according to a long-running study funded by the National Institutes ...

“Acetaminophen is considered first-line medication therapy for headache in pregnancy,” says Dao. “Second-line agents include a class of migraine medications called triptans, which have shown to be ...

Pregnancy with epilepsy is manageable, with most women having healthy babies. Expert Dr. Meena Muthiah emphasizes that staying on anti-seizure medicat ...

Children of mothers who took certain anti-seizure medications while pregnant do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6, according to a long-running study. Children of mothers who took ...

Maternal vitamin D levels in the first trimester were related to both prenatal growth and pregnancy outcomes, according to a new study. Low vitamin D levels during the first trimester of pregnancy ...