Trump promet de révéler l'une des causes de l'autisme
US President Donald Trump is set to make a dramatic announcement on Monday about what he claims is a cause of autism, an announcement that has worried experts in the complex neurodevelopmental disorder.
"I think we've found an answer" to the question of "how this happens," the Republican said Sunday in Arizona, assuring that the upcoming announcement would be "one of the most important" he has ever made.
In the spring, his Health Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr., promised to establish the causes of autism "by September," a commitment that greatly worried experts due to the complexity of the subject and the positions of the vaccine-sceptic minister, who has in the past spread misinformation on the subject.
Autism is a complex, broad-spectrum disorder whose origins have long been the subject of research. While genetics plays an important role, several environmental factors have also been highlighted, such as neuroinflammation or taking certain medications like the antiepileptic drug Depakine during pregnancy.
According to US media reports, US authorities are preparing to criminalize the use of paracetamol or acetaminophen by pregnant women on Monday.
This active ingredient is present in widely used painkillers such as Doliprane, Dalfagan and Tylenol (in the United States and Canada), and is recommended for pregnant women for pain or fever, other medications such as aspirin or ibuprofen being contraindicated, particularly at the end of pregnancy.
- "Nuanced and uncertain" -
This allegation "is nothing new," notes David Mandell, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. "It's based on previously published scientific work. This is an analysis of that scientific literature, and it's a poor analysis," he told AFP.
The question of a link between paracetamol and the development of neurodevelopmental disorders in children has in fact been the subject of numerous studies in recent years, with divergent results.
A large study of more than 2 million children, published in 2024 in the prestigious medical journal Jama, had ruled out this risk. But this summer, an analysis of previous studies reached the opposite conclusion, with its authors warning that further studies were needed to confirm this possible implication.
One of the challenges researchers face is that it's difficult to distinguish the effects of taking the drug from the reasons it's being taken, Mandell says.
"We know that fever (...) can increase the risk of neurodevelopmental delays and disorders," he points out. "So we have to be very careful when trying to determine which of these two factors is responsible for the increased risk of autism."
Publicly linking the drug to autism would be "highly irresponsible and potentially dangerous," dozens of American autism scientists warned in early September, after the Wall Street Journal raised the possibility.
"The science is much more nuanced and uncertain," they insisted, warning that such an announcement would sow "confusion and fear."
In response to this press report, shares in the American pharmaceutical group Kenvue, which markets Tylenol, fell on Monday, down 6.46% to $17.16 at around 4:05 p.m. GMT.
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il fout la honte à son pays. Rien de nouveau car durant le COVID-19 il avait suggéré de boire l'eau de javel car ça tue le microbe lors du lavage des mains.
Un vrai clown
Pfff...
Décidément Doctor Trump.
Things are falling apart with this man on the top of à world superpower.
Sacré Trump ,le clown de l'Amérique !!!
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