Developmental pediatric experts at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago are available to speak to reporters who are covering the Trump administration's assertion that there is a link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, saying the claim "doesn't stand on good science."
The experts:
Dr. Rachel Follmer, assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Lurie Children's who sees autistic patients clinically.
Dr. Larry Gray, associate professor of pediatrics in the division of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Feinberg and a physician at Lurie Children's who sees autistic patients clinically.
The experts can talk to reporters about:
- The decades of research into the cause of autism, including the landmark 2024 study by Swedish and American scientists that found no increased risk of autism from acetaminophen use in pregnancy
- What families can do in response to hearing these claims
- The history of "refrigerator mothers"
- Guilt mothers might now experience if they had taken Tylenol during pregnancy
- Leucovorin, also known as folinic acid, which has recently been touted as a possible autism treatment
