Today's insanity... Researchers find link between ibuprofen/paracetamol and bad things for cells in a dish Next minute:pic.twitter.com/obkoRTrQUe
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Today's insanity... Researchers find link between ibuprofen/paracetamol and bad things for cells in a dish Next minute:pic.twitter.com/obkoRTrQUe
Haven't been able to track down the study itself, but what I CAN say is that based on existing literature any effect is likely to be ~very modest~pic.twitter.com/p6TRaxtOjN
The coverage of this study is also painfully bad. I've yet to find a piece that didn't just copy/paste this phrase from the press releasepic.twitter.com/385MIwOFX6
Does this "40% reduction" in germ cells translate to human fertility? Does it mean anything at all to pregnant women? Probably not
The recommendations are already "take as little as possible" for virtually all drugs, and paracetamol is the last of the things you can take for pain whilst pregnant
If we get rid of paracetamol, we're saying that women should go for 9 difficult months with no medicinal pain management whatsoever, which sounds wildly unreasonable
It just looks like yet another study that has virtually no relevance to people's lives being over-hyped into a terrifying pronouncement by the press ping @DrJenGunter
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