US President Donald Trump has claimed there is a link between the use of painkiller Tylenol by pregnant women and an increased risk of autism in some children. Going against current scientific advice ...

A large study from Massachusetts found that babies whose mothers had COVID-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to ...

Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other leaders legitimize vaccine conspiracy theories and dehumanize neurodivergent Americans, writes guest columnist Lisa Lacy.

Elizabeth McLain wasn’t diagnosed with autism until she was in her 20s, and it only happened then because she had been an ...

Some autistics can tap into extraordinary sensory abilities, but scientific stigma and the fear of being overpathologized may ...

The creation of Tylenol as a brand name for the drug acetaminophen dates to 1955. Acetaminophen itself was first prepared in 1878, but it didn't receive widespread use until Tylenol's creation. The ...

From Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu’s claims that childhood vaccines cause autism to Donald Trump’s Tylenol (paracetamol) warning ...

“Did you take Tylenol when you were pregnant with me?” My 21-year old son, Jack, texted me this just minutes after President Trump’s press conference in which he linked autism and Tylenol. Jack was ...

Globes of folinic acid, also called leucovorin, which Trump team officials have promoted as an intervention for autism. According to Martin Makary, head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer. I wasn’t looking for a diagnosis in April of 2004 when I began reading a New York Times article on Asperger’s syndrome — then psychiatry’s label for a ...