{"id":105165,"date":"2025-10-30T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105165\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:41:09","slug":"health-chief-says-data-is-insufficient-to-show-tylenol-causes-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105165\/","title":{"rendered":"Health chief says data is insufficient to show Tylenol causes autism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of Health and Human Services, says Tylenol should be used with caution during pregnancy, but solid data linking it to autism is lacking.<\/p>\n

Susan Heavey and Ahmed Aboulenein
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Texas sues makers of Tylenol over alleged link to autism<\/p>\n

The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol, alleging it failed to warn consumers about risks of the drug.<\/p>\n

Last month, Trump said U.S. officials would suggest limiting the use of Tylenol during pregnancy, though doctors say it is safe to use.The state of Texas sued Tylenol maker Kenvue on Oct. 28, accusing it of hiding data about health risks.RFK Jr. said there isn’t enough data to confirm a link between Tylenol and autism, but the painkiller should still be avoided during pregnancy, if possible.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC \u2012\u00a0There is not enough evidence to confirm that Tylenol causes autism but the pain medication should still be used cautiously, President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s top health official said on Oct. 29, a month after the president<\/a> said U.S. health officials would recommend limiting its use.<\/p>\n

Health Secretary Robert F.\u00a0Kennedy\u00a0Jr.’s comments also come one day after the Republican state of\u00a0Texas sued Kenvue,<\/a> the maker of the medicine also known as acetaminophen and which has been sold widely for decades.<\/p>\n

“The causative association … between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely cause autism. But it is very suggestive,”\u00a0Kennedy\u00a0told reporters, citing animal, blood and observational studies.<\/p>\n

“There should be a cautious approach to it,” he added.<\/p>\n

Trump, who is not a doctor,\u00a0in September\u00a0warned pregnant women against taking the medication without citing any scientific evidence. His unproven claim initially hit shares of the consumer health company, Kenvue<\/a>, which was spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023, and\u00a0prompted pushback\u00a0from many doctors.<\/p>\n

Kenvue has repeatedly defended the pain medicine, saying there is no scientific link to autism and warning that such suggestions could endanger maternal health.<\/p>\n

The company\u00a0has urged\u00a0the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reject the call for an autism warning on Tylenol’s label, and has reportedly hired a\u00a0new marketing chief.<\/p>\n

“We agree, as Secretary\u00a0Kennedy\u00a0said, that the best message to pregnant women is to consult their healthcare professional before taking acetaminophen, which is what our Tylenol label tells consumers to do. We also agree that there is no definitive causative association between taking acetaminophen and autism,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Kenvue\u00a0shares were down\u00a01.4% at market close on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington, and Kamal Choudhury in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler, Deepa Babington and David Gregorio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of Health and Human Services, says Tylenol should be used with caution during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2951,271,66031,500,8638,6897,54,4161,497,510,8647,66033,491,453,163,512,85,46,494,508,493,492,425,505,502,513,482,498,790,499,511,43,420,801,504,514,11852,13819,13820,503,490,507,627,4374,18968,424,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-105165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-administration","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-branch","11":"tag-conditions","12":"tag-d-c","13":"tag-donald","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-drug","16":"tag-drugs","17":"tag-drugs-u0026-medications","18":"tag-executive","19":"tag-executive-branch","20":"tag-f","21":"tag-food","22":"tag-health","23":"tag-health-news","24":"tag-il","25":"tag-israel","26":"tag-johnson","27":"tag-johnson-u0026-johnson","28":"tag-jr","29":"tag-kennedy","30":"tag-literature","31":"tag-management","32":"tag-medical","33":"tag-medical-literature-u0026-resources","34":"tag-medication","35":"tag-medications","36":"tag-negative","37":"tag-neurological","38":"tag-neurological-conditions","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-overall","41":"tag-overall-negative","42":"tag-pain","43":"tag-pain-management","44":"tag-party","45":"tag-republican","46":"tag-republican-party","47":"tag-resources","48":"tag-robert","49":"tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","50":"tag-trump","51":"tag-u-s","52":"tag-u-s-food-and-drug-administration","53":"tag-u0026","54":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}