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Antidepressant use during pregnancy should be evaluated with evidence-based counseling

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 17th, 2006

Women continue to fear taking antidepressants during pregnancy, more so than nonpsychiatric drugs, but evidence-based counseling can lower this fear.

Scientists writing in the journal Archives of Women's Mental Health stated, "The World Health Organization predicts that by 2012, depression will be the number one disease in the world. Thus, many women who become pregnant will require treatment with antidepressants."

L. Bonari and colleagues of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto wrote, "We are aware that women and their health care providers remain hesitant to prescribe and take these drugs during pregnancy, despite evidence of the...

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