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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Former CDC Director's Perspective On Taking Tylenol While Pregnant

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week, President Trump announced that taking Tylenol while pregnant could lead to a higher risk of the child developing Autism. In a press conference, he urged expectant mothers to stop using the over-the-counter drug. Since then, there has been pushback from the company, as Americans ponder what drugs are safe to take. Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield shares his perspective on taking Tylenol while pregnant and whether the studies he has reviewed indicate a higher risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi. Hi, everybody. Martha McCallum here, and this is the new edition of the Untold Story podcast.

0:48.4

Obviously, there's a lot of discussion around this very forceful news conference that we saw at the White House a few days back,

0:56.2

where the president told people, just don't take it when it comes to Tylenol. And he said

1:01.1

pregnant women should not be taking Tylenol. So of course, there was a lot of pushback from the

1:07.1

company. This is a huge crisis for the Tylenol company, and it raises a lot of questions

1:12.6

about what's safe, what isn't safe, and what is the White House actually advising on this from a

1:19.8

medical standpoint. So I'm very glad to have with me a good friend of our show and someone that we

1:25.5

turn to when we want sort of a very scene look at what the medical situation and what the science tells us is the former CDC

1:34.3

director and senior visiting fellow for public health policy at the Heritage Foundation Center

1:39.1

for Health and Welfare Policy, Dr. Robert Redfield.

1:42.6

Dr. Thanks for doing this.

1:44.1

Great to see you. Thanks for having for doing this. Great to see you.

1:45.2

Thanks for having me, Martha.

1:46.5

Glad to be here.

1:47.5

So I'm curious what you thought, because what we heard at Charlie Kirk's funeral at the service last Sunday,

1:55.7

President Trump said, we're going to have a big announcement on autism.

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