An article with the title, “Pregnant Mothers Should Not Take SSRI [Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor] Antidepressants,” was published on The Huffington Post, an online news source of Arianna Huffington. In the article, a psychiatrist explained how media reports and a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) press release on a recent CDC study about SSRIs and birth defects was dangerously misleading. He wrote, “The reassuring attitude promoted in the CDC's press release flew in the face of evidence linking SSRI exposure during pregnancy to increased birth defects, and the additional evidence of SSRI toxicity in the developing brain. It proclaimed that the study ‘found no significant increase in the risks for the majority of birth defects assessed…' The assertion was sheer nonsense….” link to full article

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