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Trump Offers New Warning on Tylenol for Pregnant Women
President Trump on Sunday once again urged pregnant women not to take Tylenol unless “absolutely necessary,” to avoid giving the over-the-counter drug to children “for virtually any reason” and to break up certain vaccine dosages. Trump’s renewed call comes a month after he and top health officials said pregnant women should not take acetaminophen — one of the most widely used medications in the world — for pain relief because of a potential risk of autism, despite no new evidence proving the drug directly causes it.
The advice was also notable because acetaminophen had been seen as the safest pain medication for pregnant women to take. But Trump doubled down on his calls with the Sunday post.
“Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social that linked to a Daily Caller article claiming the Food and Drug Administration stayed silent about potential Tylenol risks.
MAHA-Aligned Groups Urge USDA to Better Support Family Farmers and Local, Healthy Food
In a powerful call to action, a coalition of 120 organizations, farmers and medical professionals aligned with the Make America Healthy Again Initiative have issued a letter to Secretary Brooke Rollins, urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to realign its policies and funding priorities. This move seeks to support programs that ensure local, healthy food reaches communities, while simultaneously safeguarding the livelihoods of farmers and the health of our land.
The letter highlights the dire state of America’s farming landscape, citing the loss of more than 162,200 farms since 2017, averaging 63 farms a day, as well as the detrimental effects of industry consolidation and soaring input costs. These challenges have been further exacerbated by recent cuts to critical USDA programs.
“Decades of unchecked industry monopoly power and rising input costs are pushing America’s best farmers to the economic brink,” said David Murphy, founder of United We Eat, and former finance director of RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign. “To grow real, healthy food and reverse chronic disease, the USDA must invest in long-term strategies that support the transition to building soil health, reducing chemical use, and producing more nutrient-rich food for our nation’s children.”
What Will the Trump-Era Crackdown on Drug Ads Accomplish?
Late last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is overseen by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., drew a line in the sand over direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies: In a post on X, the agency declared that drug ads “can push people to take drugs they don’t actually need. Americans often end up harmed instead of helped.” That’s why, the post continued, President Donald Trump and Kennedy “are taking action.”
The most immediate evidence of those efforts came the previous week, in the form of a presidential memorandum on what the administration views as “misleading” direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads. The same day, HHS and the Food and Drug Administration released a joint press release outlining that drug makers would now be required to substitute the abbreviated disclosures they’ve used since 1997 with full safety warnings, including conditions or situations that make taking the drug unsafe.
Despite the change in stance, however, it’s unclear if or when Americans will see fewer ads — or even ones that reflect the memo’s objectives. Legal challenges will almost certainly stymie the Trump administration’s most aggressive actions, and the history of pharmaceutical advertising in the United States is one of uneasy tension between consumer interest and corporate free speech.
RFK Jr Railed Against Ultra-Processed Foods. Trump’s Policies Encourage Their Production
As U.S. Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly blamed industrially manufactured food products for the country’s chronic illness and obesity crises, and urged Americans to limit their consumption of foods with added sugar, salt, fat, dyes and preservatives.
Amid a slew of controversial and unbacked public health claims, his stance on ultra-processed foods is one of his least polarizing. More than 65% of Americans say they are in favor of reforming processed foods to remove added sugars and added dyes, according to a January Associated Press and National Opinion Research Center poll.
Yet while RFK Jr. touts the importance of eliminating ultra-processed foods from the U.S. diet, nutrition experts say several of the Trump administration policies, including massive subsidies to corn and soy farms, undermine that goal.
