Sentences with phrase «for severe birth defects»

They are to be used by pregnant women returning from Latin America and the Caribbean, where the virus may be to blame for severe birth defects.

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Folic acid, for one, helps reduce the risk of several severe birth defects significantly.

They say that the drug — used by pregnant women for morning sickness until it was discovered to cause severe birth defects — affected more people in the United States than thought, and caused a wider range of deformities.

The mosquito - borne Zika virus has been around for decades, but recently grew into an international health emergency following its association with severe birth defects and with Guillain - Barré syndrome, and its rapid spread in Central and South America.

And for some patients, particularly those with the most severe nodular and cystic acne, medications such as oral isotretinoin may be recommended — although the use of isotretinoin is tightly controlled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since it can cause birth defects if a woman becomes pregnant while taking the medication.

Some of the severe manifestations and complications associated with Zika disease include fetal loss, microcephaly and other birth defects, and the potential for delayed mental and physical effects among infected babies born in apparent good health.

An emerging virus that is causing an unprecedented epidemic in Brazil and is quickly spreading through Latin America may be responsible for a spike in severe birth defects.

But the Brazilian government is now warning that the virus may be responsible for a dramatic increase in cases of microcephaly, a severe birth defect in which the brain fails to develop properly and the head is much smaller than normal.

Prescribed as an antinausea drug for pregnant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it caused severe birth defects in as many as 10,000 children before it was yanked from the market.

News about a mysterious, tropical virus called Zika and its link to severe birth defects and newborn deaths abroad may be worrisome for many — especially pregnant women or those who are thinking about getting pregnant.

Despite the fact that Zika puts pregnant women at risk for having babies with the severe birth defect microcephaly, Frieden acknowledged to reporters that they continue to run into apathy over the virus and that it can be difficult to get the public to want to change behavior.

The political problem for Republicans right now in their endeavor to demonize and defund Planned Parenthood is that family planning providers are on the front lines in the fight against Zika, the rapidly spreading virus that causes severe birth defects.