#public-health-misinformation

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US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Trump Re-Ups Jarring All-Caps Warning to Pregnant Women: DON'T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!'

President Donald Trump urged pregnant women to avoid Tylenol and recommended separating childhood vaccines across multiple visits.
fromFortune
1 month ago

FDA asks doctors to minimize Tylenol in pregnancy while admitting 'causal relationship has not been established' to autism | Fortune

Many doctors and scientists were reeling Monday after President Donald Trump went on TV to insist that pregnant women should never take Tylenol and revive debunked theories about vaccines and autism. Trump went beyond his own Food and Drug Administration's more modest advice that doctors "should consider minimizing" the painkiller acetaminophen's use in pregnancy - amid inconclusive evidence about whether too much could be linked to autism.
Public health
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Daily briefing: Tiny marsupial bounces back from near-extinction

A tiny new moon of Uranus was found, public-health staff warn against misinformation harms, and a simple frog 'mini-sauna' helps amphibians resist deadly chytrid fungus.
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