A new announcement by the president and Health and Human Services secretary this week is telling pregnant women to avoid taking acetaminophen, better known as Tylenol.
During a televised news conference, they stated there was a link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism.
The claim quickly gained national attention, and now health experts are saying the evidence simply doesn’t support his theory, so what does the science say?
Dr. David Pate, the former CEO of St. Luke's Health System, joined Idaho Matters to help answer this question.
