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Nigel Farage has refused to side with medical experts over Donald Trump in a row over whether it is safe to take paracetamol while pregnant.

The President said earlier this week that doctors in the US will soon be advised not to prescribe the painkiller to pregnant woman, claiming it is linked to autism in their children.

Scientists including Dr Alison Cave, the chief safety officer at UK medical regulator the MHRA, have said there is no evidence linking the two.

The NHS recommends paracetamol as the ‘first-choice painkiller’ for pregnant women, though the advice is to use it ‘at the lowest dose and for the shortest duration’.

Dr Cave said: ‘Our advice on medicines i

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