#medical-misinformation
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US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days agoFarage refuses to criticise Trump over paracetamol despite health experts dismissing autism claims
Nigel Farage refused to criticize Trump's claim that prenatal acetaminophen may cause autism, saying science is never settled and he will not side with experts.
fromwww.twincities.com
2 days agoScientists rebuke Trump's Tylenol-autism claim, stress fever is bigger danger in pregnancy
President Donald Trump's call for pregnant women to avoid Tylenol is drawing sharp criticism from researchers who say the advice ignores decades of evidence and could endanger mothers and babies. At a White House event Monday, Trump linked acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism and encouraged women to tough out fevers. The remarks, made alongside health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a longtime critic of mainstream medicine rattled doctors and drugmakers.
US politics
US news
fromBoston.com
3 days agoDr. Trump? The president reprises his COVID era, this time sharing unproven medical advice on autism
Donald Trump urged pregnant women to avoid acetaminophen (Tylenol) and recommended delaying combination vaccines, promoting unproven health claims linking treatments to autism.
fromFuturism
2 weeks agoChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying
With multiple mental health- related deaths already linked to ChatGPT, it now looks like the abysmal medical advice spat out by the OpenAI chatbot may end up claiming another life. In an interview with the Daily Mail, a 37-year-old named Warren Tierney explained how he went from a concerned and doting husband during his wife's difficult pregnancies to his own stage-four cancer diagnosis after the chatbot told him that his increasingly severe sore throat wasn't cause for concern.
Health
fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoAn FDA panel spread misinformation about SSRI use in pregnancy, alarming doctors
"Untreated or undertreated depression during pregnancy carries health risks, such as suicide, preterm birth, preeclampsia, and low birth weight," the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine wrote in a statement late last month.
Public health
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