Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior in recent months has been exposed to the September Declaration, in which the cause of autism will be determined. This week, some near the Trump administration and a main news port suggested that Kennedy may indicate the direction of using acetaminophen during pregnancy as a possible link.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, in which Kennedy was planning to announce a link between autism and the use of Thailanol by pregnant women, as well as autism and low levels of folate (essential vitamin that helps the body to produce cells), among other possible causes. NBC News has not confirmed these reports.
The active ingredient of seleinol is acetaminophen, a drug known as analgesic, which can help relieve pain. Many medications that do not need prescription contain acetaminophen.
“We use the gold science to reach the bottom of the unprecedented height in America in autism rates. Until we launch the final report, any claims about its contents are nothing more than speculation,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, said in an email message.
“There is nothing more important for us than the health and safety of people who use our products. We have constantly evaluated the flag and continued to believe that there is no causal link between the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and autism,” Kinfo, the company that manufactures Tilanol, said in a statement.
The shares in Kenvue decreased sharply after the magazine published its article, as it fell more than 9 % on Friday.
At least two relatives of the Trump administration raised the report earlier this week.
On Tuesday, the right -wing right -wing activist Laura Loomer It was published to X. The use of Tilanol by pregnant women was under the audit by HHS. On the same day, Dr. Robert Malon, who was recently appointed by Kennedy in the Committee for Disease Control and Prevention of Independent Vaccines, He said in an appearance on the American news network He believed that Kennedy was preparing to connect Tilanol, vaccines and autism.
Doctors and researchers spent contracts in the study of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tilanol, and found widely that it was the safest option to relieve pain during pregnancy. The largest part of the scientific literature does not indicate any link between autism and exposure to asymaminophen in the womb.
One of the most powerful studies to date, Posted last year in the Journal of the American Medical AssociationI found that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy was not associated with autism, hyperactivity disorder, lack of attention or mental disability.
Initially, when the researchers looked at the general population, there was a very little risk of turmoil in children whose mothers took acetaminophen during pregnancy. However, after the researchers compared siblings within the same family – one exposed to the drug during pregnancy, and the other – they did not find any link.
“We were able to adapt to the things that we saw that others had missed them before,” said Brian Lee, one of the authors of the study and an associate professor of epidemics at Drexzel University.
“It seems to me that the danger is low to not present.”
He added that “RFK JR. and those who support them have a long history of ignoring very widely controlled studies such as [the JAMA paper]Enhancing results from much smaller studies and those who have suspect methods. “
The question came in the introduction again last month when reviewing literature Published In the BMC journal, environmental health concluded that it was possible that there was a relationship between autism and exposure to iyaminophen during pregnancy.
Walter Zahuroudni, Autism Researcher at the University of Rutgers joined Kennedy in April A press conference on high autism ratesIt was recently published about the review It is LinkedIn. Email Zhoorodney said he was not aware of HHS plans to issue a report.
Santhosh Girirajan, who studies the genetic foundations for nervous growth disorders at Pennsylvania State University, said the review was not well developed as the Jama study. Disease Control Center estimated that 1 in 31 school age children suffer from autism. But Jerueragan said that autism rates will be more prevalent if the use of acetaminophen contributes.
He said, “I am very surprised by how Tilanol appears here,” referring to the reported results from HHS.
He added: “If it is a review of all literature on autism, then heredity should be in the foreground and the center.” “This is what all scientific community agreed, based on evidence and repetition over the years, for decades.”
Dr. Christopher Zan, head of clinical practice at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in an e -mail that pregnant women should not be afraid of eating acetaminophen.
He said: “Acetaminophen has been created long ago as a safe pain reliever for pregnant individuals during pregnancy.” “Unfortunately, over the years, there have been many unfounded challenges for this fact, which may have caused some ambiguity and anxiety for many pregnant individuals.”
Although Kennedy said in April that HHS will determine the cause of autism by September, medical experts generally agree that the search for one reason is the wrong way to deal with the issue. Autism is not a single disorder. Instead, it can have a set of manifestations – some of them moderate, others are more clear. Scientists have also found a variety of risk factors – most of which exist before birth – for developmental disorders that affect how people interact, communication, learning and behavior.