Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump today tied the use of the drug acetaminopin during

pregnancy to autism and made several other claims about vaccines this evening without strong

scientific evidence. The president said the FDA will start advising women that acetaminopin,

which is used in Tylenol, can be associated with autism. During an event at the White House, the President said that that was his opinion and said

most pregnant women should cope without it.

Taking Tylenol is not good.

I'll say it. It's not good.

For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy

unless medically necessary.

That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, that you feel you can't tough it out,

you can't do it.

I guess there's that.

It's a small number of cases, I think.

But if you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're going to have to do.

You'll take at Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly.

In addition to those comments, the president and his health team also suggested a cancer

drug called lucavoren as a potential treatment for autism. The FDA says it will now make

a lukevoren tablets available for some autistic patients with a specific neurological condition.

We have also identified an exciting therapy

that may benefit large numbers of children

who suffer from autism.

Beer-reviewed literature has documented

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