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FDA releases warning about migraine treatment

CBS News reports on a U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning that medications containing valproate sodium may cause lower IQs in children born to women who take them.

An agency news release quotes Dr. Russell Katz, director of the Division of Neurology Products in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, as saying: “Valproate medications should never be used in pregnant women for the prevention of migraine headaches because we ...

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