Patients often have many questions for Dr. Ashish Premkumar, an OB-GYN who specializes in high-risk pregnancies.

But before this week, he wouldn’t have expected the safety of Tylenol to be at the top of the list of concerns for his high-risk patients. Yet he’s been fielding questions about the common pain reliever all week, including from one of his patients who’s been on the medication recently to help deal with complications, he said.

“She asked if it was safe because she had heard what the president had said,” said Premkumar, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at UChicago Medicine who is also an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. “She was anxious about it.”

He told her it was safe to continue taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in

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