No evidence linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism
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Last September, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a supposed breakthrough: they found evidence of a potential link between autism and acetaminophen during pregnancy.
Pregnant women “should feel reassured that they still have a safe option to relieve them of their symptoms,” said the study’s lead researcher
A surprisingly high number of kids with autism are later diagnosed with intellectual disability, researchers say, and they suspect the trend is rooted in an effort to retain services into adulthood. In a study looking at Medicaid beneficiaries nationally ...
The study, published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health, directly refutes assertions made by U.S. President Donald Trump in September, who claimed a "meteoric rise" in autism cases and suggested Tylenol – known as paracetamol in the UK – was a potential cause.