Two drugs used to treat HIV can cause potential birth defects and should not be used by pregnant women. Protease inhibitors ritonavir and indinavir caused some baby rats to be born missing an eye. Additionally, the baby rats developed hair and teeth slower than normal. The findings at the Freie Universitat Berlin show that pregnant women should avoid taking such drugs, although the use of reverse transcriptase inhibitors is considered safe.
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