pill bottles Pregabalin, a drug often used for anxiety, pain, and other neurologic disorders, may be linked to a higher risk of major birth defects, researchers reported in a Neurology study.

To characterize the comorbidities, pain-related pharmacotherapy, and healthcare resource use among older patients with fibromyalgia (FM) newly prescribed pregabalin in clinical practice. These results ...

Taking pregabalin (Lyrica) during pregnancy may be associated with a higher risk of major birth defects, researchers found. Women who'd taken the drug also had a lower live birth rate compared with ...

Perioperative gabapentin use was associated with kidney function decline compared with pregabalin. Perioperative use of gabapentin may increase the risk for kidney function decline and chronic kidney ...

HealthDay News — The widely prescribed drug pregabalin (Lyrica) may slightly increase the risk for birth defects, according to a study published online May 18 in Neurology. The study included 164 ...

Although pregabalin is mechanistically similar to gabapentin and shares similar advantages, such as a lack of pharmacokinetic interactions with other medications or enzyme induction, there are several ...

Dose-response association with highest odds of opioid-related death with high-dose pregabalin. Tara Gomes, Ph.D., from the University of Toronto, and colleagues conducted a population-based nested ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) There has been a significant rise in deaths linked to the commonly prescribed anxiety drug, pregabalin. While in 2018 there were 187 deaths linked to pregabalin in England ...