Men taking sodium valproate are being warned to use contraception while on the medicine, because of "a potential small increased risk" of neurodevelopmental disorders in their future children ...

Dr Hughes's role was created to look into the scandals surrounding the drug sodium valproate and pelvic mesh implants. She told the BBC: "These families weren't listened to by a system that really ...

Objective: To determine the efficacy and tolerability of magnesium valproate as monotherapy in patients with partial or generalised epilepsy. Design and Setting: This was a nonblinded study ...

[12] The magnesium salt possesses pharmacokinetic properties comparable to those of sodium valproate or valproic acid and, in preclinical studies, the presence of the magnesium ions improves the ...