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Psychiatric disorders are a heterogeneous group of mental disorders, manifesting as unusual mental or behavioural patterns that cause distress or disability to the individual.
Using a new approach to control for genetic and environmental confounders, a review and meta-analysis finds no link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children.
A common pain reliever taken in pregnancy might raise the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to research in the past decade. But proof of cause and effect remains elusive.
