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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his call for pregnant women and young children to stop using popular pain medication Tylenol, defying widespread criticism from medical groups, and offered further healthcare advice not backed by science.
The president posted to social media Friday echoing advice from earlier in the week that is contrary to most medical guidance.
In other health adjacent news, Pritzker also criticized the federal governments new stance that ties the use of Tylenol while pregnant to autism, a finding that some health experts, including those at the IDPH, have disputed.
President Trump gave personal suggestions Monday on how and when parents should have children receive certain vaccines, offering advice he said was based on his own feelings during a press event
President Donald Trump unleashed a surreal rant about children being injected with “massive” vaccines similar to ones “you’d give to a horse.” Trump said vaccines “can be great” unless you “put the wrong stuff in them.
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Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism
President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday suggested an overhaul to how children get vaccinated after claiming, without evidence, that many vaccines are unsafe as currently given. The president said he has talked with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his proposed changes.
During their press conference, the Trump administration also said that it would establish leucovorin, a type of folic acid, as the “first recognized therapeutic” for autism. But so far, the sample studies have shown that leucovorin only benefits a subset of autistic children and the studies have only been on a small scale.
A top doctor has told the Mirror that Donald Trump's new comments on the MMR vaccine are 'putting the lives of children at risk' - and echo the fraudulent claims of Andrew Wakefield