UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting reportedly told British patients to ignore Donald Trump’s call for pregnant women to avoid Tylenol, known in Britain as paracetamol, in a rare instance of a British minister openly criticizing the US president.
At a White House event Monday, Trump linked acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism, encouraging women to tough out fevers without taking the painkiller. The remarks, made alongside health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a longtime critic of mainstream medicine — rattled doctors and drugmakers.
