Babies born to women who have high blood pressure during the early part of their pregnancies have an increased risk of birth defects, a new study shows, and the drugs commonly used to treat high blood pressure did not reduce this risk.

Babies born to women who have high blood pressure during the early part of their pregnancies have an increased risk of birth defects, a new study shows, and the drugs commonly used to treat high blood pressure did not reduce this risk.

A NEW study that links hypertension in pregnancy to increased risk of birth defects has added new impetus to a Scottish run trial of drugs aimed at preventing the condition.

A new study suggests that hypertension early on during pregnancy increases the risk of giving birth to babies with birth defects, researchers from the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute in California reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). The authors added that the raised risk is there, regardless of whether they were prescribed hypertensive drugs, suggesting that it is the underlying ...

Shares United Therapeutics, the Silver Spring, Md.-based maker of drugs for the lung disease pulmonary arterial hypertension, fell 17% to $40 as an oral version of the company's lung drug badly missed analyst expectations in a key study.The oral version of treprostinal, which is also known as Remodulin and is already approved in injectable and inhaleable forms, increased the distance that ...