by Global health authorities and supervisory authorities have dismissed unscientific advice from Donald Trump, which established an unproven connection between autism and the use of everyday pain relievers and vaccines.
In a sign of how concerns foreign governments are concerned about the comments of the US President, the Minister of Health of the United Kingdom, that the closest allies in the United States, is to the British public that they should “not pay attention to what Donald Trump says about medicine”.
On Monday, Trump said pregnant women that they should not be paracetamol as Tylenol and internationally known as paracetamol, and added that those who could not restrict it should restrict their admission.
He also said – in comments that the risk of children and children should suspend fatal diseases, to suspend, delay or avoid the parents of small children, some vaccines. “Don’t let your baby inflate with the biggest bunch that you have ever seen in your life,” he said.
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the survey of the value of life -saving vaccines was misled and that the link between paracetamol in pregnancy and autism became “inconsistent”.
“We know that vaccines do not cause autism,” said WHO spokesman Tarik Jašarević. “Save vaccines, as I said, countless life. So that’s something that science has proven, and these things should not really be questioned.”
Wes Streeting, the British health secretary, was even more direct in his criticism and said ITV: “I trust doctors about President Trump, frankly.
“So I would only say to people who watch: don’t pay attention to what Donald Trump says about medicine at all. [National Health Service]. “”
Hours after Trump made his comments, the MHRA, the British Health Regulator, published an explanation that there is no evidence that combine paracetamol use during pregnancy with autism.
Dr. Alison Cave, Chief Safety Officer of the agency, warned that “untreated pain and fever can represent risks to the unborn baby”, and it was important to treat these symptoms with recommended treatments.
The European Medicines Agency also stuck on its guidelines. The Chief Medical Officer of the EU agency, Steffen Thirstrup, said her advice was “based on a strict evaluation of the available scientific data and we have not found any evidence that taking paracetamol caused autism during pregnancy”. When asked, a spokesman for the EU Commission referred to the EMA results.
The administration of therapists, the drug regulatory authority in Australia, confirmed that paracetamol was safe during pregnancy and rejected the connection with the neurological development conditions.
There was an explanation in which it is said that “working with other global medication regulators, leading clinics and scientists worldwide in order to reject demands on the use of paracetamol during pregnancy, and the subsequent risk of developing ADHD or autism in children”.
Trump made his announcement together with his health minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
At the beginning of this year, Kennedy promised to determine the “cause” of autism and to announce the results this month. The press conference on Monday seems to be an attempt to deliver the results of the deadline of Kennedy, although it has not delivered any new information supported by science.
Experts say that it is unrealistic to find the underlying factors of a complex syndrome that has been examined for decades.
Autism diagnoses. One of 31 children aged eight in the United States in 2022 had a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder, according to the centers for the control and prevention of diseases. This is compared to one of 150 in 2000.
Doctors believe that there are two main reasons for the climb and that they do not refer to vaccines or medication. First, the definition of autism has expanded. Second, the parents have increasingly sought a diagnosis of autism that has become better known in public.
In his assessment, the White House seems to rely on a review of 46 earlier studies from 2025, which pointed out a connection between prenatal paracetamol exposure and an increased probability of neurological developmental disorders. Critically, these researchers said that the study had not proven that the medication had caused the results and advised that pregnant women should continue to use paracetamol after the lowest dose and for the short time.
Instead, health experts have pointed out a large Swedish study published in 2024, which pursued 2.4 million births and did not find any evidence of a connection between prenatal exposure to drug and autism.
