Health bodies worldwide have rejected President Donald Trump’s claim of a link between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and autism.
Health officials worldwide have rejected President Donald Trump’s warning that pregnant women should avoid acetaminophen due to an alleged link to autism.
Trump, speaking in Washington alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., declared: “Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take it. Fight like hell not to take it.”
But regulators and experts from Europe to Australia said no new evidence justified a change in medical advice. The European Medicines Agency stated: “Available evidence has found no link between the use of paracetamol during pregnancy and autism.” The World Health Organization also stressed that research remained “inconsistent” and urged caution in drawing conclusions.
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration described Trump’s remarks as “a misrepresentation of the science,” while Britain’s MHRA reaffirmed paracetamol as the recommended option for pregnant women.
Spanish Health Minister Mónica García Gómez accused Trump of “ignoring all medical studies,” warning that “denialism not only destroys trust in science: it puts lives at risk.”