Australia news live: AMA says ‘no studies’ back Trump claim about paracetamol as TGA confirms it is safe for use in pregnancy

<p>Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has said while it does not provide clinical advice, paracetamol remained a pregnancy Category A medicine. Follow today’s news live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Australians urged to take health advice from doctors, researchers and the medical community</strong></p><p><strong>Danielle McMullen, </strong>the president of the <strong>Australian Medical Association</strong>, stressed that <strong>paracetamol has been deemed by the TGA to be safe to use in pregnancy,</strong> although “of course like all medications we try to use it as little as possible when pregnant”.</p><p>The advice here in Australia sill is that paracetamol is a reasonable option and [a] safe option for pregnant women to use.</p><p>Like we did as Australia during the pandemic, we really took strong health advice from doctors, from researchers, and from that medical community and our regulator. So I’d encourage Australians to still do the same.</p><p>Our chief health officers and medical officers are medical practitioners, and trained in analysing these studies and weighing up the pros and cons and translating that into information that’s understandable by the general public. So, really encourage people to talk to their doctors in terms of listening to health advice for our health officers and health ministers here to be listening to that health advice.</p><p>The pilots received a pressurisation warning light shortly after take off on Monday morning and followe