This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.

This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    20 hours ago

    Is there any science proving this? Could I sue “Buckley’s Cough Syrup” because of my gut feeling that they caused my toenail fungus?

    • LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      19 hours ago

      Short answer no. Also correlation is not causation Let’s say child autism is correlated with infection at a certain age then it could be the infection and not the thing you took for the infection.

      They are dumb fucks who cannot read studies. Remember COVID?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      19 hours ago

      a buddy of mine got a flu shot and then while walking out of the pharmacy he was hit by a car. Coincidence? No way.

    • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      No, because in a court of law, your feelings aren’t the thing that matters. :)