WHICH antiepileptic drugs are safe to take during pregnancy

October 1997

After all these years, it's still not clear WHICH antiepileptic drugs are safe to take during pregnancy.

Now researchers at Massachusetts General Hosp are building a national registry of pregnant women taking antiepileptics.

They will analyze this data to determine which antiepileptics are safe or unsafe to take during pregnancy.

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