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Antibiotic pills 'can hurt unborn baby'

26 March 2015

Research by UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital, co-authored by Professor Ruth Gilbert (UCL Institute of Child Health), highlights that a class of antibiotics known as macrolides may carry a small risk of term babies being born with epilepsy or cerebral palsy. Read: Daily Mail, More: Guardian, Telegraph