Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been annoyed by a September report in recent months, which will determine the cause of autism. This week, some close to Trump’s administration and one of the main news outlets, it is proposed that Kennedy can draw attention to the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy as one possible connection.
The Wall Street Journal said on Friday that Kennedy was about to report the relationship between pregnant women’s autism and tilenol, as well as autism and low folate levels (the necessary vitamin that helps the body to produce cells), among other possible reasons. NBC News has not been approved by this report.
Tylenol active substance is acetaminophen – a medicine known as an analgesic that can help relieve pain. Many over -the -counter medications contain acetaminophen.
Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, The letter stated: “We use the gold standards science to get to the bottom of an unprecedented American autism -free increase. Until we release the final report, any statements about its content are nothing more than guesses.”
Kenvue, a company producing Tylenol, said in a statement that “we have nothing more important to us than the health and safety of the people who use our products. We continually evaluated science and continue to believe that the use of autism and autism between acetaminophene is no causal link.”
Kenvue’s shares decreased dramatically after the magazine published its article, “The fall by more than 9% on Friday.
At least two people close to Trump’s administration annoyed the report this week.
Laura Loomer, an extreme right -wing activist on Tuesday, announced X that the use of tylenol in pregnant women is checked for HHS. On the same day dr. Robert graga, whom Kennedy recently appointed to the Advisory Committee of Self -Control and Prevention of Disease Control and Prevention, appearing on one American news network, said he believed that Kennedy was preparing to connect Tylenol, vaccinations and autism.
Doctors and researchers have spent decades studying acetaminophen, the active ingredient of tylenol, and essentially found that this is the safest possibility of pain relief during pregnancy. Most of the scientific literature shows no connection between autism and acetaminophen in the uterus.
One of the more reliable studies so far, published last year, found that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy was not associated with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability.
Initially, when the researchers looked at the common population, the disorder of children with mothers increased very low risk. However, after researchers compared brothers and sisters in the same family – one, one with drugs, during pregnancy, and the other did not find any connection.
“We were able to adapt to things we saw that other people could have missed earlier,” said Brian Lee, an associate professor at the study of the study at the University of Drexel.
A psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University dr. Joshua Gordon Email By email, there were some disputes in this area, but “It seems obvious to me that the risk is not low.
He added that “rfk jr. and those supported by [the JAMA paper]to promote the findings of much smaller studies and those who have suspected methods. ‘
The question again arose last month, when a literary review published in BMC Environmental Health concluded that during pregnancy, the connection between autism and acetaminophen was likely to occur.
Walter Zhorodny April of Rutgers University autism researcher. Joined Kennedy in the preparation of a press conference on rising autism, recently announced a Linkedin review. Zahorodny email E -mail said he was not familiar with HHS plans to publish a report.
Santhosh Girirajan, who investigates the genetic bases of neurodegenerative disorders at Pennsylvania State University, said the review was not as well as a study. CDC estimates that 1 in 31 school -age children must be autism. However, Girirajan said the cost of autism would be much more common if the use of acetaminophen is contributing.
“I am very surprised at how Tylenol appears here,” he said with reports of HHS findings.
“If these are all literary literature literature review, genetics should be ahead and center,” he added. “It was with this for decades that the whole scientific community has agreed, based on evidence and replication.”
Christopher Zahn, Chief of Clinical Practice of American Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Email The letter stated that pregnant people would not have to be scared of acetaminophen.
“Acetaminophen has long been diagnosed as a safe relief of pregnant people during pregnancy,” he said. “Unfortunately, over the years, there have been some unjustified challenges that most pregnant people have probably caused some confusion and concern.”
Although April Kennedy said HHS would try to determine the cause of autism by September, medical experts usually agree that finding one reason is the wrong way to deal with the problem. Autism is not one disorder; Rather, it can have many manifestations – some gentle, others brighter. Scientists have also identified a variety of risk factors, most of which exist before childbirth, which due to developmental disorders that affect people interact, communicate, learn and behave.
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