Recent reports in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal say President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are expected to announce that the use of Tylenol by pregnant women may be linked to autism in children. But many top medical experts in the field say the evidence does not support that.

This comes after Kennedy said in April that HHS would undertake a "massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism. Kennedy at the time said the plan was to release a comprehensive report in September. However, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said later that month the findings could take up to a year.

Kennedy has in the past made the unfounded claim that autism is a "preventable disease," drawing heavy criticism

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