FDA's surprise approval of autism drug raises concerns
US President Donald Trump recently made comments linking the painkiller acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, to autism, for which there is no evidence.
US President Donald Trump recently made comments linking the painkiller acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, to autism, for which there is no evidence.
The White House claimed that Dr. Andrea Baccarelli has found a "causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder." Not true.
On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much to the chagrin of many autistic adults, who were completely excluded from the process. The two, alongside administration officials including Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator […]
Colleagues call Gordon Guyatt the “godfather” of evidence-based medicine. Guyatt, a distinguished professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada, has had sweeping influence on medical research: GRADE, the framework he helped pioneer to assess the evidence behind clinical recommendations, is a standard at more than 100 medical organizations, including the WHO. Before Guyatt, medicine […]
In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed today that the government has uncovered two potential explanations for autism. In a formal White House announcement they asserted that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiency in pregnant people […]
The drug, also known as paracetamol, is the most widely used painkiller in the world, and is considered safe in pregnancy.
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