{"id":155464,"date":"2026-03-06T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155464\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:30:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-parents-struggle-to-find-autism-related-medication-amid-leucovorin-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155464\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Parents struggle to find autism related medication amid leucovorin shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are scrambling to find a possible treatment for speech\u2011related deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder, leading to a nationwide shortage of the medication leucovorin.<\/p>\n<p>Leucovorin is normally used to counteract the side effects of chemotherapy. But demand rose sharply after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/hhs-trump-kennedy-autism-initiatives-leucovorin-tylenol-research-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned it in Septembe<\/a>r as a potential option for treatment for children on the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Prescriptions have doubled in recent months, leaving many pharmacies without supply.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services says leucovorin is not a cure for ASD. Officials say the medication \u201cmay only lead to improvements in speech\u2011related deficits for a subset of children with ASD\u201d and must be used under close medical supervision and alongside non\u2011pharmacological therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents are scrambling to find a possible treatment for speech\u2011related deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder, leading to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[14836,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-155464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-autism","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}