On Monday morning, the FDA hosted a 10-person expert panel on the use during pregnancy of SSRIs, which include medications ...

An agency-sponsored forum included critics of psychiatry who believe the drugs can harm a developing fetus. Other experts ...

A Food and Drug Administration panel on Monday discussing the use of antidepressants during pregnancy largely amounted to ...

As my colleague Kiera Butler has written, Kennedy has claimed, without evidence, that they can cause addiction and school ...

Democrats have accused Robert Kennedy Jr. of making claims without scientific research to back them and say his claims are ...

Members of an FDA expert panel discussed the risks and benefits of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, for ...

"Serotonin may play a crucial role in the development of organs of a baby in utero, specifically heart, brain, and even the ...

In December, two new studies on taking antidepressant drugs during pregnancy drew a lot of attention. A Canadian study of more than 145,000 infants born in the province of Quebec found a link ...

Many people want the healthiest pregnancy possible for their baby — and often they think that means doing it with as little medication as possible. But when it comes to antidepressants there may ...

4) Do not stop antidepressants during pregnancy if you have become suicidal while depressed in the past and antidepressants have been necessary to ward off thoughts of harming yourself.

Antidepressants are very widely used in the U.S. and 13 percent of U.S. women took them while pregnant in 2003, the researchers said. That's up from 5.7 percent in 1999.

NBC News medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar reports on the FDA panel discussion of the use of antidepressants during ...