Another "drug baby" media scare?

Recently (July 27, 2005), Medical News Today (MNT) carried a story with the alarming title, "Single prenatal dose of meth causes birth defects." Join Together, a prominent website, published a summary of the story with a similar headline and opening with the possibly more inflammatory, "Pregnant women who use methamphetamine even once put their unborn children at risk of birth defects" (July 29, 2005).

These headlines misleadingly imply that the research involved women when it actually involved mice, and both the original story and the Join Together summary ...

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