subject: Zyban Birth Defects - Claim Your Legal Compensation if you Took Zyban During Pregnancy [print this page] Zyban Birth Defects - Claim Your Legal Compensation if you Took Zyban During Pregnancy
The popular antidepressant and smoking cessation drug Zyban has been linked to heart defects in newborns. Did you or a loved one take Zyban during pregnancy? You may be entitled to legal compensation and I feel it's very important for everyone to know about this. Suffering through the tragedy of having a newborn baby with heart defects is devesatating, and you deserve to be compensated.
The Zyban warning you may not be aware of. Zyban was approved for use in the United States by the FDA in 1985 as an antidepressant by the name of Wellbutrin. In 1997 Zyban (bupropion) was also approved by the FDA to be used as a smoking cessation aid. In May 2010 a new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology has stated that pregnant women who used Zyban early in their pregnancy have an increased risk of delivering a baby with heart defects.
Zyban is classified as a pregnancy Category C medicine, which means that it could potentially cause harm to your unborn child, yet many women took the drug unaware of this.
Researchers have found that over 12,700 infants born between 1997 and 2004 in the USA, whose mothers had taken Zyban during their pregnancy, have more than double the risk of a heart defect known as left outflow defects. The most common type of defect found within this study was coarctation of the aorta, which is a congenital heart defect that causes narrowing of the aorta and normally requires surgical repair.
If you are one of the thousands of women who took Zyban (bupropion) during your pregnancy, you and your child have legal rights and could be entitled to legal compensation.
Click here to fill out a free online legal compensation form and take action against this drug that has caused you so much harm.
