Epidurals During Labor and Autism in Children: New Data

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE
7 min readApr 21, 2021

A new study refutes prior research linking epidurals with autism spectrum disorder.

You would be hard-pressed to think of a medical innovation that has alleviated more human suffering than epidural analgesia.

Epidurals changed the process of childbirth from what, for many women, was an…

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F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

Medicine, science, statistics. Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale. New book “How Medicine Works and When it Doesn’t” available now.