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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and Wales, this number was ...

Although antidepressants and buspirone effectively treat GAD, it may take 4-6 weeks for symptom relief to occur. In general, patients with GAD desire relief as soon as possible. Benzodiazepines have a ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Pfizer halted a late-stage study of its second-best selling drug, Lyrica, as a possible treatment for a nerve pain in HIV patients. The world’s largest drugmaker said Friday it was ...