American Healthcare continues to go backward

If there were a close causal link between thimerosal and autism then the prevalence of autism would decrease as thimerosal use decreased. Instead the opposite has happened. The prevalence of autism has increased as thimerosal use has decreased. But as I've already discussed, the increase in prevalence is because of an improvement in identifying autism, not because of an increase in any causality.
 
Trump: We're gonna have something very big coming up on autism. Autism is totally out of control. You're gonna see some things that are amazing that we've learned that somebody else wouldn't have learned

 
Trump: We're gonna have something very big coming up on autism. Autism is totally out of control. You're gonna see some things that are amazing that we've learned that somebody else wouldn't have learned

Reference what I just said about improvements in sensitivity of diagnostic criteria and the increasing prevalence.
 
A CDC committee further limited access to Covid vaccines. Left unclear was whether Americans could still walk into pharmacies for the shots.

 

I think the committee is going to change it.

It is unbelievable that instead of looking at the very well done papers that show the benefit, they are going to listen to the MAGA moms on twitter saying "Hep B is sexually transmitted so we shouldn't give it to babies. This is just big pharma making money blah, blah, blah."

The only thing we can hope for is that now that the prevalence is low that the babies that slip through the testing issue and contract at birth will be few and far between.
 
I think the committee is going to change it.

It is unbelievable that instead of looking at the very well done papers that show the benefit, they are going to listen to the MAGA moms on twitter saying "Hep B is sexually transmitted so we shouldn't give it to babies. This is just big pharma making money blah, blah, blah."

The only thing we can hope for is that now that the prevalence is low that the babies that slip through the testing issue and contract at birth will be few and far between.
As I said, the damage this administration is doing to public health is far reaching and will take decades to undo. WTF are we listening to mommy bloggers?
 
A CDC committee further limited access to Covid vaccines. Left unclear was whether Americans could still walk into pharmacies for the shots.

MAGA: We want the freedom to not get vaccinated.

Also MAGA: We don’t want you to get vaccinated.
 
Trump: We're gonna have something very big coming up on autism. Autism is totally out of control. You're gonna see some things that are amazing that we've learned that somebody else wouldn't have learned


He should just treat autism like inflation and tell the American public it doesn't exist anymore.
 
As I said, the damage this administration is doing to public health is far reaching and will take decades to undo. WTF are we listening to mommy bloggers?
Once again, the mass media needs to do something. In March 2020 when COVID started spreading CNN was on it 24 hr. a day, keeping us up to date on number of cases and deaths, along with any controversies from the lock downs. Now it seems CNN always ignores the wild and crazy statements on the COVID vaccines, such as they are bioweapons, from the antivaxxers and conspiracy theory nuts. Doing that won't make them go away.
 
Once again, the mass media needs to do something. In March 2020 when COVID started spreading CNN was on it 24 hr. a day, keeping us up to date on number of cases and deaths, along with any controversies from the lock downs. Now it seems CNN always ignores the wild and crazy statements on the COVID vaccines, such as they are bioweapons, from the antivaxxers and conspiracy theory nuts. Doing that won't make them go away.
The media is powerless against MAGA and MAHA. They have lost all influence.
 

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability​

  1. Viktor H. Ahlqvist, PhD1; Hugo Sjöqvist, MSc1; Christina Dalman, MD, PhD1
  2. et al
  1. Author Affiliations
  2. Article Information
JAMA
Published Online: April 9, 2024
2024;331;(14):1205-1214. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.3172

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Key Points
Question Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy increase children’s risk of neurodevelopmental disorders?

Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use.

Meaning Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding.

Abstract
Importance Several studies suggest that acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy may increase risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. If true, this would have substantial implications for management of pain and fever during pregnancy.

Objective To examine the associations of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and intellectual disability.

Design, Setting, and Participants This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis included a population-based sample of 2 480 797 children born in 1995 to 2019 in Sweden, with follow-up through December 31, 2021.

Exposure Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy prospectively recorded from antenatal and prescription records.

Main Outcomes and Measures Autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes in health registers.

Results In total, 185 909 children (7.49%) were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Crude absolute risks at 10 years of age for those not exposed vs those exposed to acetaminophen were 1.33% vs 1.53% for autism, 2.46% vs 2.87% for ADHD, and 0.70% vs 0.82% for intellectual disability. In models without sibling control, ever-use vs no use of acetaminophen during pregnancy was associated with marginally increased risk of autism (hazard ratio
, 1.05 [95% CI, 1.02-1.08]; risk difference [RD] at 10 years of age, 0.09% [95% CI, −0.01% to 0.20%]), ADHD (HR, 1.07 [95% CI, 1.05-1.10]; RD, 0.21% [95% CI, 0.08%-0.34%]), and intellectual disability (HR, 1.05 [95% CI, 1.00-1.10]; RD, 0.04% [95% CI, −0.04% to 0.12%]). To address unobserved confounding, matched full sibling pairs were also analyzed. Sibling control analyses found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with autism (HR, 0.98 [95% CI, 0.93-1.04]; RD, 0.02% [95% CI, −0.14% to 0.18%]), ADHD (HR, 0.98 [95% CI, 0.94-1.02]; RD, −0.02% [95% CI, −0.21% to 0.15%]), or intellectual disability (HR, 1.01 [95% CI, 0.92-1.10]; RD, 0% [95% CI, −0.10% to 0.13%]). Similarly, there was no evidence of a dose-response pattern in sibling control analyses. For example, for autism, compared with no use of acetaminophen, persons with low (<25th percentile), medium (25th-75th percentile), and high (>75th percentile) mean daily acetaminophen use had HRs of 0.85, 0.96, and 0.88, respectively.

Conclusions and Relevance Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding.
 
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