"The bottom line," Pack says, "is that I tend not to prescribe valproate as a first-line drug for most women with epilepsy who are in their reproductive years. That's not to say that valproate is ...

Objective: To determine the efficacy and tolerability of magnesium valproate as monotherapy in patients with partial or generalised epilepsy. Design and Setting: This was a nonblinded study ...

Sodium valproate was already known to make it more difficult to father a child. But the MHRA says this is usually reversible after the drug is stopped. Chief executive of the Epilepsy Society ...

Researchers investigate how anti-seizure medication use during pregnancy may increase the risk of neuropsychological ...

The drug rapamycin could prevent the epilepsy medication sodium valproate from causing developmental problems during ...

[16] In this study, valproate use was associated with excess ... Pregnancy Registry of Women Taking Antiepileptic Drugs, the UK Epilepsy and Pregnancy Register, and the European and International ...

Christine Coley says she was not told of the risk of getting pregnant while taking the epilepsy drug Christine Coley was prescribed sodium valproate for epilepsy when she was trying for her fourth ...

Fetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder is the umbrella term for a variety of conditions that occur when epilepsy medication is taken during pregnancy. In 2022, former health secretary Jeremy Hunt ...

Children exposed to the anti-seizure drug lamotrigine during pregnancy were at no increased risk for autism or intellectual ...

The Patient Safety Commissioner has said in a new report that "thousands of women, children, and families have been harmed" by the epilepsy drug sodium valproate and "there is a compelling case ...