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Australia’s chief medical officer, Prof Michael Kidd, has joined a chorus of Australian medical experts condemning the Trump administration’s announcement tying paracetamol to autism , with his predecessor, the former chief medical officer Prof Paul Kelly, labelling the announcement as “cruel” to pregnant women.

Australia’s medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, said that “robust scientific evidence shows no causal link between the use of paracetamol in pregnancy and autism or ADHD, with several large and reliable studies directly contradicting these claims … Importantly, untreated fever and pain can pose risks to the unborn baby.”

Dr Elisha Broom, a counsellor and spokesperson for the Royal Australian and New Zealand Coll

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