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Tom Harkin: “Do you have any idea about when we might be able to really get some body of evidence or something that we could rely on…”

On the recordMay 20, 2009
Do you have any idea about when we might be able to really get some body of evidence or something that we could rely on to say for prevention, we ought to be doing this and that pre-natal care and pregnant women ought to take certain factors into account?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin questions the timeline for reliable evidence on prenatal care recommendations.

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