Louisiana challenges Trump Republican

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), A gastroenterologist who presides over the Senate Health Committee, is challenging the announcement of President Donald Trump who links without foundation the use of Tylenol during pregnancy with autism and asks the Department of Health and Human Services to publish any evidence he has on the subject.

Cassidy went to the president’s words for the first time, saying that the studies do not support the claims he made at a clumsy press conference on Monday.

“The preponderance of the evidence shows that this is not the case,” Cassidy wrote. “The concern is that women will not have options to control pain in pregnancy. We must be compassionate with this problem.”

He added that the HHS, led by the theorist of the Vocal Health Conspiracy Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “should publish the new data they have to support this statement.”

Cassidy’s impulse occurred shortly after Trump instructed pregnant women at least a dozen times: “Do not take tylenol,” a brand of generic drug acetaminophen. The comments were not promoted by any significant new research, but they are in line with the Kennedy crusade against vaccines and other forms of modern medicine in their search to explain autism, which does not have a known cause.

Trump announced that the Food and Medicines Administration “will strongly recommend that women limit the use of Tylenol during pregnancy unless it is medically necessary.”

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Louisiana Republican doubled his concerns during an appearance on Tuesday at a local radio station. The “best” study on the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism does not support Trump, he told Brian Haldane of Talk 107.3 Brian Haldane.

“There is a Sweden article: two million people followed, and what they did is that they looked at someone who had autism and compared them with a brother who had no autism, and found no association between taking Tylenol or not,” said Cassidy, describing him as “higher quality” and “better” study on the subject.

The findings that Trump referred to Monday seemed to be of “a study that found an association,” he said. “Now that is the key: an association. That does not mean that it causes it; it only means that it is associated.”

Cassidy said she already listened to a pregnant woman frustrated by Trump’s announcement.

“I was talking to a woman, she says: ‘Oh, this is great. Two men tell me not to take all I can take when my back hurts and I’m pregnant,” he said.

“This is the drug that you take when your ankle touches and you are pregnant,” Cassidy continued.

Although Trump said in the press conference on Monday that there is no “inconvenience” if the mothers abstain from Tylenol, a fever reducer, while pregnant medical experts say it is false. Uncreated fevers during pregnancy entail the risk of greater spontaneous abortion, premature birth and possible birth defects, warns society for maternal-feetal medicine (SMFM).

Cassidy added that an Ob/Ginano will probably tell patients that it is “safe” to take acetaminophen.

Cassidy publicly hesitated to advance in the Kennedy nomination of his committee for a complete vote of the Senate, saying that he was fighting with the decision because he has had patients who have suffered serious health and life results because they were not vaccinated. But he finally put on the side of the rest of the Republicans in the committee, advancing Kennedy with a 14-13 vote.

Last month, Cassidy criticized Kennedy for canceling an investment of $ 500 million in vaccine investigation.

“It is unfortunate that the secretary has canceled half a billion work, wasting the money that is already invested,” he said.