Wes Streeting has lashed out against Donald Trump for telling pregnant women not to take paracetamol.

The Health Secretary warned the public: “Don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine”.

He told ITV’s Lorraine : “I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this”. New Feature

In Short

Quick Stories. Same trusted journalism.

The US president last night said there had been a “meteoric rise” in cases of autism and suggested that Tylenol, which is called paracetamol in the UK, is a potential cause.

Trump also raised concerns about the MMR vaccine – despite claims that the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella being linked to autism are long-disproved by scientific research.

Scientists from the UK Health Security Agency and NHS doct

See Full Page