Introduction - Uppsala Monitoring Centre

information we obtained did not lend itself to any likely interpretation.’ (Morgan
1985). Arguments against Aspirin being a cause were given by an American
team (Orlowski et al., 2002), but these were rejected by Waller and Suvarna
(Waller & Suvarna, 2004). Initially Orlowski’s paper was meant to be one of
two, one ‘pro’ and the other ‘anti’, but the second paper didn’t arrive and so
the Orlowski paper was published without its balancing paper. Balancing
papers, such as this, inevitably polarise the authors and reduce the possibility
of producing a balanced assessment. A later paper favours the causal
association (Glasgow, 2006).
SED 1960: there were 49 cases of salicylate intoxication in children (