Overview

• At a White House event, President Trump urged pregnant women to avoid paracetamol and pressed for changes to childhood vaccine schedules, while Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said vaccines are under close review.
• The World Health Organization said observational findings are inconsistent and reiterated that vaccines do not cause autism, warning that altering schedules raises infection risks for children and communities.
• The European Medicines Agency and the U.K.’s MHRA said paracetamol remains appropriate in pregnancy at the lowest effective dose and reported no evidence it causes autism.
• Scientists condemned the president’s remarks as misleading, noting large cohort work including a 2024 JAMA sibling-comparison study that found no association, despite some observational and meta-analytic signals.
• The administration announced new funding and authorized folinic acid for certain autism presentations, and media reports said the FDA plans to update acetaminophen labeling and notify physicians.