"WASHINGTON (AP) - Many doctors and scientists were reeling Monday after President Donald Trump went on TV to insist that pregnant women should never take Tylenol and revive debunked theories about vaccines and autism. Trump went beyond his own Food and Drug Administration's more modest advice that doctors "should consider minimizing" the painkiller acetaminophen's use in pregnancy - amid inconclusive evidence about whether too much could be linked to autism. His comments came as the administration also moved to make more available a possible but unproven autism treatment - and also announced more research into the disorder."
"Dr. Steven Fleischman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, worried that the Tylenol claims would terrify mothers-to-be and parents of children with autism. "I don't want you going back and looking and saying to yourself, 'I shouldn't have done this, I shouldn't have done that.' It's nothing you did. It really is not," he said. "Not treating the fever probably has more adverse effects that you need to worry about than taking the medication.""
"As for vaccines, "studies have repeatedly found no credible link between life-saving childhood vaccines and autism," said American Academy of Pediatrics president Dr. Susan Kressly. "Any effort to misrepresent sound, strong science poses a threat to the health of children." Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised earlier this year to determine the cause of autism by September. That baffled brain experts who say there is no single cause and that the rhetoric appears to ignore decades of science into the genetic and environmental factors that can play a role."
President Donald Trump advised pregnant women not to take Tylenol and repeated concerns linking acetaminophen in pregnancy to autism, going beyond FDA guidance that recommended clinicians "should consider minimizing" use amid inconclusive evidence. The administration moved to expand access to a possible but unproven autism treatment and announced additional research. Obstetric leaders cautioned that discouraging acetaminophen could frighten expectant mothers and that untreated fever may pose greater risks. Pediatric leaders emphasized that extensive studies find no credible link between vaccines and autism. Experts noted autism involves multiple genetic and environmental factors and lacks a single cause.
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