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Autism is not a scare story: What parents need to know about medications in pregnancy, genetic risk and misleading headlines

By Sura Alwan, Clinical Instructor in Medical Genetics (Teratology & Birth Defects Epidemiology); Co-Director, TERIS (The Teratogen Information System), University of British Columbia

Recent reports about medication use in pregnancy may sound distressing, but reducing complex science to alarming headlines does more harm than good.

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