965 - Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Medication Use During Pregnancy
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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About this episode:
Prescribing medicine to address fever or pain in pregnancy is a delicate task with a need to consider both potential benefits and risks. In this episode: Obstetrician Dr. Angie Jelin shares how she discusses Tylenol use with expectant parents in the context of emerging evidence and recent news from the federal government.
Guests:
Dr. Angie Jelin is the assistant director of prenatal genetics at the Prenatal Diagnostic Center in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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Autism Risk Linked to Fever During Pregnancy—Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
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Interpreting the Data on Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Autism—Public Health On Call (September 2025)
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| 1:15.7 | Today, balancing the benefits and risks of acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, |
| 1:16.5 | during pregnancy. |
| 1:22.2 | Dr. Angie Jellin is an obstetrician gynecologist and an expert in genetics and maternal fetal medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. |
| 1:25.1 | She joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about how she thinks about the |
| 1:28.4 | role of acetametaphon in treating fever and pain during pregnancy. Let's listen. Dr. Angie Jellon, |
| 1:34.7 | thank you so much for joining you today in Public Health on Call. How are you doing? Great. Thank you |
| 1:39.2 | so much for having me. Could you start by introducing yourself to our audience? I understand you're an obstetrician. |
| 1:47.0 | I am. Yes, I trained at UCSF. I did both obstetrics gynecology and then I did a combined |
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