A teratogen is anything an individual is exposed to during pregnancy that causes an anomaly or malformation in the fetus. A teratogen can be a drug, chemical, substance, virus, or many other things.

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However, overall prevalence of exposure to teratogenic medicines is low. (HealthDay News) — Pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive technology (ART) have a higher prevalence of exposure to ...

Background Anticonvulsants have been used to manage psychiatric conditions for over 50 years. It is recognised that some, particularly valproate, carbamazepine and lamotrigine, are human teratogens, ...

Nearly 50 years ago, an increasing number of babies worldwide were born with deformities and missing limbs. The babies had fallen victim to the teratogenic effects of thalidomide, a drug commonly ...

What are the Effects of Teratogenic Drugs on the Fetus? Teratogenic drugs can cause birth defects including cleft lip, cleft palate, and organ deformities. Effects of some common teratogenic drugs are ...

No maternal deaths and no hydroxyurea-related teratogenic malformations occurred following hydroxyurea exposure during pregnancy in more than 200 patients with sickle cell disease.

Teratology is the study of the causes and biological processes leading to abnormal development and birth defects and of the appropriate measures for prevention. Although genetics and other branches of ...

In a recent Birth Defects Research study, United States-based scientists determined that infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the first trimester of ...

DURING a study of the teratogenic effects of heavy metals on mammalian embryos, we have been able to produce severe developmental malformations in golden hamster embryos by the intravenous injection ...

Teratogenic exposures are those that can cause an embryo or fetus to develop abnormally. Several factors determine whether an agent is teratogenic, including the gestational timing of the exposure, as ...

Epidemiology, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jul., 1999), pp. 437-440 (4 pages) We evaluated the potential teratogenic effects of vaginal and/or topical administration of clotrimazole in the large population-based ...