The over-the-counter drug has been used in Tylenol and many other other widely used medications for decades as a pain and fever reliever during pregnancy.

Donald Trump said Monday the Food and Drug Administration approved a chemotherapy drug called leucovorin as a treatment to alleviate symptoms of autism, despite little evidence that the medication works.

Trump also said the administration is issuing a warning to doctors not to recommend acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol and other widely used medications — for pregnant women, claiming it may be linked to autism in children.

Trump had been teasing the announcement for days, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other health officials have pledged to determine the cause of the developmental disorder by September.

Washington Post says announcement imminent despite guidelines showing drug – known as paracetamol elsewhere - is safe for pregnant women to take

Donald Trump’s administration is on Monday expected to tie pregnant women’s use of the popular medicine Tylenol – known as paracetamol elsewhere in the world – to a risk of autism, contrary to medical guidelines, the Washington Post has reported.

Trump officials are also expected to announce an effort to explore how the drug leucovorin could purportedly and potentially treat autism, according to the Post report published Sunday, which cited four sources with knowledge of the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement had not been made.

Medical guidelines say it is safe for pregnant women to take Tylenol, the over-the-counter pain medication whose active ingredient is known as acetaminophen in the US and paracetamol elsewhere in the world.

Some have little to no documented experience with vaccines while others have undermined their safety

Five new advisers will join the vaccines committee for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later this week, the agency and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday, in a move that underscores the increasingly anti-vaccine stance of the committee.

Some of the new members have little to no documented experience with vaccines, while others have repeatedly undermined the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and other measures to control infectious disease.

The news comes on the heels of resignations by senior health leaders who say they were ignored or pressured to participate in unscientific processes, including changes to Covid vaccine eligibility and access.

So for the last three years, I’ve had horrible postnasal drip. It started when I was 16 years old in October 2022. I had a sinus infection and it made me not feel so great. I was more tired than usual, and overall, just not myself.

Since that time, I’ve been getting a lot of sore throats that usually end up turning into a cold. From the colds, I’ve had a lot of thick, yellow green mucus, and lots of nausea. I’m assuming the nausea from the remaining mucus that’s dripped down the back of my throat that I couldn’t get out. I’ve had a poor immune system since I was a kid. I don’t know if it’s because I was born premature, but I’ve always got really sick when I’ve had a cold. As a kid, I would always throw up and as a result, lose weight. I developed emetophobia when I was about eight years old, and as a result, haven’t thrown up in about 10 years. I still get pretty nauseous and lose my appetite whenever I have a cold. Since the whole postnasal drip thing started, I’ve had several colds, I don’t remember how many but if I had to take a guess I’d say between two and three per year. Yesterday, I came down with my first cold in about six months, But the mucus is stuck and won’t come out of my throat, so I’ve had to swallow it. Normally, I just take the DayQuil and NyQuil and it comes right out, but this time it’s being stubborn. I don’t know if it’s related to my deviated septum or not.

I’ve taken every allergy medication over-the-counter and tried every at home remedy I could think of. I’ve seen multiple doctors and taken several antihistamines to try and stop it. Nothing has worked. In May of this year, I decided to see a different ENT now that I am an adult. She noticed I had a deviated septum, but she also noticed that my esophagus was looking pretty rough. She referred me to a G.I. doctor, Since I have been having stomach and esophagus issues prior to this. He did an endoscopy, but said that everything looked good. I went back to the ENT, and she suggested I do a CT scan before I make the decision to consider surgery. She kept trying to talk me out of it, Saying to really think about it because it’s a life changing surgery. I asked for her opinion, but she said it’s up to me. All my other doctors noticed the deviation and said that I might benefit from the surgery. I agree agree with them, however, they aren’t the ENT so I don’t know for sure. I’m scheduled for surgery later this year and I’m super nervous and the pain and anesthesia.

Does anybody have experience with post nasal drip or getting a septoplasty, and what did you do about it?

A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying, until age 4, the hepatitis B vaccine that's currently given to newborns, according to two former senior officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For more than 30 years, the CDC has advised that infants get the first of three shots of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. In that time, the potentially fatal disease has been virtually eradicated among American children. Between 1990 and 2022, case rates plummeted 99 percent among people age 19 and younger.

Pediatricians warn that waiting until age 4 to begin vaccination opens the door to more children contracting the virus.

The "something alarming" is synthetic drugs and no psilocybin.

A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. St. Louis is a window into the problem communities face nationwide.

For more than a half-century, vaccines have had remarkable success eradicating the most lethal and devastating childhood infectious diseases, saving millions of lives and ushering in a relative golden era of global public health.

But now, America is dangerously backsliding.

The vast majority of counties across the United States are experiencing declining rates of childhood vaccination and have been for years, according to an NBC News data investigation, the most comprehensive analysis of vaccinations and school exemptions to date.

California lawmakers voted to ban a group of chemicals known as PFAS, which are often called "forever chemicals," in cookware. The move has pulled in celebrity chefs on one side and environmentalists, including actor Mark Ruffalo, on the other.

The proposal, Senate Bill 682, would prohibit PFAS in cookware, cleaning products, dental floss, ski wax, food packaging and certain children's products. Lawmakers approved the bill in a 41-19 vote, late on Friday, with 20 assembly members not voting. The bill quickly passed amendments in the Senate and is now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk for his signature.

It's the latest move to limit PFAS, which are a class of thousands of chemicals that have been around for more than 70 years and are widely used in a variety of consumer, commercial and industrial products due to their ability to withstand heat and repel water and stains. They are called "forever chemicals" because they are extremely persistent in the environment and can accumulate in humans and animals.

People in at least eight states have been infected with Chagas, new report says, amid low awareness of disease

Under ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr, federal health officials are working to link COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to the deaths of 25 children, and may further restrict access to the shots, possibly recommending them for people aged 75 and up, instead of 65 and up, according to The Washington Post.

Four unnamed sources close to the situation told the Post that Trump administration health officials appear to be using information from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to make the claim that COVID-19 vaccines have killed children.

VAERS is a system in which anyone can report anything they think is an adverse event related to a vaccination. The reports are completely unverified upon submission, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff follow up on serious reports to try to substantiate claims and assess if they were actually caused by a vaccine. They rarely are.