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Callum Godde and Abe Maddison

'No evidence': medical experts reject autism claims

Australian authorities have hosed down fears over the use of paracetamol during pregnancy. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia's top medical authorities have emphatically rejected Donald Trump's claim of a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism.

Chief medical officer Michael Kidd and the Therapeutic Goods Administration joined other global medicines regulators, leading clinicians and scientists worldwide in declaring "robust scientific evidence" showed no causal link between the use of paracetamol in pregnancy and autism or ADHD.

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