The Latest Breaking News from Autism

“Are you making good health decisions?” reads one Robert F. Kennedy Jr. meme on social media, a slogan printed against an image of a smiling US health secretary. Such social media posts invariably invite lively comments beneath them, but the situation is deadly serious.

A 2017 post by Tylenol on X (formerly Twitter) highlighted by White House has fueled a buzz around President Donald Trump‘s claim that the drug is linked with autism in kids.

Letters: Noting the lack of evidence for linking paracetamol to autism, James Watson-O’Neill warns against describing the condition as a tragedy or something to fear, while the mother of an autistic child says pigeonholing autistic people is deeply damaging

Trump was eager to single out drug manufacturer despite no new evidence to support administration’s unproven claims

Authorities say all three people shot were detainees at Dallas facility. Plus, WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism

Obama said Donald Trump’s claims linking paracetamol to autism in infants is ‘violence against the truth’. Key US politics stories from 24 September 2025

Former president says successor’s claims about drug branded Tylenol in US ‘undermines public health that can do harm to women’

United States President Donald Trump recently claimed that using the common painkiller acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol and by the brand name Tylenol in the US) during pregnancy is fuelling the rise in autism diagnoses. He then went on to suggest pregnant women should “tough it out” rather than use…

Body says research has found ‘no consistent association’ and urges pregnant women to follow doctors’ advice