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Francesca Rudkin: Trump's Autism comments are unhelpful
I didn’t really want to touch on this yesterday. I really hoped the story about President Trump coming out and declaring that pregnant mothers taking paracetamol was the cause of autism would just die a quick death in the news.
But it made an impact - as you may have seen.
Comments like Trump’s are hugely frustrating and unhelpful. They cause concern among expectant mothers about the use of paracetamol. As stated by the NZ College of Midwives yesterday, “high quality scientific evidence does not demonstrate a causal link or association between paracetamol use and autism or other developmental…
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