BONUS POD： Trump and RFK Jr： Acetaminophen may be Associated w Increased Risk of Autism
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The FDA will be updating the label of an existing drug to reflect potential benefits in reducing some autism symptoms. President Donald Trump, standing next to RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz, has come out with major changes and recommendations when it comes to dealing with the issue of autism.
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The FDA will be updating the label of an existing drug to reflect potential benefits in reducing
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This gives hope to the many parents with autistic children that it may be possible to improve
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That's one of the things that I'm very, very happy about.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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So nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update, and we've got one major story for
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The President of the United States of America, standing next to RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz, have
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come out with major changes and recommendations when it comes to dealing with the issue of
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The President said he'd been waiting 20 years to do this.
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You are going to hear the facts about what has been said, and then we will play you what
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All right, I want to take a moment and I want to talk to you real quick about what you can
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It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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It was a major announcement from the White House today as President Donald Trump, RFK Jr.,
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Dr. Oz, and others gathered to talk about an important issue, and that is autism.
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Donald Trump and RFK Jr. described autism spectrum disorder, known as ASD,
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They stated it now affects about 1 in 31 American children.
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Now, the president had one significant warning, and it was talking about acetaminophen, also
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The administration is associating acetaminophen, or Tylenol, used during pregnancy with a possible
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increased risk of autism based on earlier studies.
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As a result, the FDA will issue a physician notice and start the process to change safety
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labeling for acetaminophen to reflect these concerns.
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Now, the administration is also launching a public service campaign to inform families
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and advise pregnant women to use acetaminophen only when medically necessary.
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Use the lowest effective dose for the shortest duration possible for the patient.
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The NIH is funding 13 new projects under what they call the Autism Data Science Initiative,
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the ADSI, with more than $50 million in grants involving large-scale biological, clinical,
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Also, the administration said they will create replication hubs and include community engagement
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to ensure the research aligns with the needs of families and people suffering with autism.
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We also know that they're looking into other cures for autism.
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The White House also said they're going to look at things that can help people with autisms
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and even the real possibility of cures, obviously under medical supervision,
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And then, if you get back to acetaminophen, known as Tylenol to you and I,
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there is recognition of conflicting literature.
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The announcement acknowledges that there is no conclusive casual proof that Tylenol causes autism.
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There is concern, however, about untreated fever, another risk if women avoid the drug completely.
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And that is what RFK said is important, transparency.
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RFK Jr., in his role as the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
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Part of what he said today, he emphasized that autism has been neglected
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and that families have been left without answers or options as rates have continued to rise.
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He described the administration's approach as bold and supportive of opening up new treatment pathways,
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informing families and doctors of potential risks,
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and investing in significant research, which will benefit many Americans.
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RFK Jr. also says he supports the FDA's label updates for different types of treatment for children with AST
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who have different deficiencies that need different types of treatment.
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And he also said it will deal with Medicaid when appropriate as well.
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RFK Jr. backed the move to begin changing safety communications
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and labeling for acetaminophen use during pregnancy,
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while urging medical caution and acknowledging uncertainties.
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Yes, there's already a massive amount of pushback and caution from medical experts.
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But what the White House is saying is we can't keep doing things the way we are now.
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Which brings me to what the President had to say at the White House and RFK Jr.
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I want you to hear from both of them in their own words.
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So I've been waiting for this meeting for 20 years, actually.
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And it's not that everything's 100% understood or known,
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Well, today we're delighted to be joined by America's top medical and public health professionals
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as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism.
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I want to thank the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics along with me.
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And we actually met in my office, is it like 20 years ago, Bobby?
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And I always had very strong feelings about autism and how it happened and where it came from.
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And I wouldn't say that people were very understanding of where we were.
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But it's turning out that we understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it, we think.
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And I say we think because I don't think they were really letting the public know what they knew.
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Thanks as well to the director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya,
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Administrator of the Centers for Medicine and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmed Oz,
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and Acting Assistant Secretary of HHS, Dr. Dorothy Fink.
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The meteoric rise in autism is among the most alarming public health developments in history.
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Just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism.
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And I've always heard, you know, they sell a few, but I think it's a lot less time than that.
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It used to be one in 20,000, then one in 10,000.
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But in some areas, it's much worse than that, if you can believe it.
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And I gave numbers yesterday, for boys, it's one in 12.
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I was told that's in California where they have a, for some reason, a more severe problem.
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But whether it's one in 12 or one in 31, can you imagine?
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That's down from one in 20,000, then one in 10,000.
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And now we're at the level of one in 12, in some cases, for boys.
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So since 2000, autism rates have surged by much more than 400%.
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Instead of attacking those who ask questions, everyone should be grateful for those who are
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trying to get the answers to this complex situation.
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And the first day, all of these great doctors behind me were there.
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I told them, this is what we got to, we have to find out.
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Because when you go from 20,000 to 10,000, and then you go to 12, you know there's something artificial.
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And by the way, I think I can say that there are certain groups of people that don't take
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vaccines and don't take any pills that have no autism.
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That's currently, is that a correct statement, by the way?
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There are some studies that suggest that, yeah, with the Amish, for example.
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See, Bobby wants to be very careful with what he says, and he should, but I'm not so careful
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The Amish, as an example, they have essentially no autism.
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First, effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of aced,
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well, let's see how we say that, acetaminophen, acetaminophen, is that okay, which is basically
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commonly known as Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk
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of autism, so taking Tylenol is not good, all right?
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For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy
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That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, that you feel you can't tough it
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But if you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're going to have to
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You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly.
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It can be something that's very dangerous to the woman's health.
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In other words, a fever that's very, very dangerous and ideally a doctor's decision, because I think
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you shouldn't take it, and you shouldn't take it during the entire pregnancy.
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They may tell you that toward the end of the pregnancy, you shouldn't take it during the
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entire, and you shouldn't give the child the Tylenol every time he goes.
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All pregnant women should talk to their doctors for more information about limiting the use
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And so, ideally, you don't take it at all, but if you have to, if you can't tough it out,
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if there's a problem, you're going to end up doing it.
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The other thing that I can tell you that I'll say that they will maybe say at a little bit
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later date, but I think when you go for the shot, you do it over a five-time period.
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Take it over five times or four times, but you take it in smaller doses and you spread it out
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over a period of years, and they pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies.
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I don't, I think it has, I think it's very bad.
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They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse.
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You have a little child, little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines,
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I guess, 80 different blends, and they pump it in.
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And on the vaccines, it would be good instead of one visit where they pump the baby loaded
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up with stuff, you'll do it over a period of four times or five times.
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I was, I mean, I've been so into this issue for so many years just because I couldn't understand
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It's not like something that, when you, when you go from all of those, you know, healthy
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babies to a point where I don't even know structurally if a country can afford it, and
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that's the least of the problems, to have families destroyed over this is just so, so terrible.
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I also, and we've already done this, we want no mercury in the vaccine.
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This is based on what I feel, the mumps, measles, and the three should be taken separately.
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And it seems to be that when you mix them, there could be a problem.
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So there's no downside in taking them separately.
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In fact, they think it's better, so let it be separate.
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The chicken pox is already separate because when that got mixed in, I guess they made it
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No, it's only good size, and it may not have that much of an impact, but it may have a big impact.
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There's no reason to give a baby that's almost just born hepatitis B.
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So I would say wait till the baby is 12 years old and formed and take hepatitis B.
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And I think if you do those things, it's going to be a whole different, it's going to be a revolution
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The FDA will be updating the label of an existing drug to reflect potential benefits in reducing
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This gives hope to the many parents with autistic children that it may be possible to improve
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That's one of the things that I'm very, very happy about.
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I mean, this was mostly going to be on how not to have the child affected, but we've learned
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some pretty good things about certain elements of genius that can be given to a baby, and
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the baby can get better, and in some cases, maybe substantially better.
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It's not going to be easy, but it would be a lot easier if it didn't happen in the first
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place, as these great parents fully understand, right?
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Finally, to help reach the ultimate goal of ending the autism fever, the NIH will be announcing
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13 major grant awards from the Autism Data Science Initiatives.
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And to be honest with you, to me, that's the least important.
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There's so much money, but they have to do, and they have to move quickly.
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When the alternative is that nothing bad can happen, let's do it now.
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I was just saying to Bobby and the group, let's do it now.
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And if you can't live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one, because there's no
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Sadly, first question, what can you take instead?
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It's actually there's not an alternative to that.
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And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad.
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I mean, they've been proven bad with the aspirins and the Advils and others, right?
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So I'd like to ask Bobby to get up to the podium and say a few words.
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And then Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. McCary, Dr. Oz, Dr. Fink, followed by two incredible
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mothers that have experienced firsthand what this country is going through, what parts of
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And I will say there are parts of the world that don't take Tylenol.
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And I don't know if it's so or not that Cuba, they don't have Tylenol because they don't
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have the money for Tylenol and they have virtually no autism.
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And there are other parts of the world where they don't have Tylenol, where they don't have
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And, you know, the way I look at it, don't take it.
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And so I'd like to ask Bobby to come up and say a few words.
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I've been very strong on the subject for a long time.
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But I'd like to be a little bit more, a little speedier in the process of a recommendation
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To meet the President's challenge, I ordered HHS to launch unprecedented all agency effort
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to identify all cause of autism, including toxic and pharmaceutical exposures.
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At present, Trump's urging NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS are turning over every stone to identify
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the ideology of the autism epidemic and how patients and parents can prevent and reverse
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We have broken down the traditional silos that have long separated these agencies, and we have
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Historically, NIH has focused almost solely on politically safe and entirely fruitless research
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And that would be like studying the genetic drivers of lung cancer without looking at cigarettes.
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And that's what NIH has been doing for 20 years.
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As a result, we don't have an answer to this critical question.
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Despite the cataclysmic impact of the epidemic on our nation's children, we are now replacing
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the institutional culture of politicized science and corruption with evidence-based medicine.
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NIH research teams are currently testing multiple hypotheses with no area off limits.
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We promise transparency as we uncover the potential causes and treatments, and we will notify the
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Today, we are announcing two important findings from our autism work that are vital for parents
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The FDA is responding to clinical and laboratory studies that suggest a potential association between
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acetaminophen used during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including later diagnosis
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Scientists have proposed biological mechanisms linking prenatal acetaminophen exposure to altered
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We have also evaluated the contrary studies that show no association.
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Today, the FDA will issue a physician's notice about the risk of acetaminophen during pregnancy
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and begin the process to initiate a safety label change.
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HHS will launch a nationwide public service campaign to inform families and protect public health.
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FDA also recognized that acetaminophen is often the only tool for fevers and pain in pregnancy,
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as other alternatives have well-documented adverse effects.
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HHS wants, therefore, to encourage clinicians to exercise their best judgment in the use of acetaminophen
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acetaminophen for fevers and pain in pregnancy by prescribing the lowest effective dose for the shortest necessary duration
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Furthermore, thanks also to the politicization of science,
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the safety of acetaminophen against the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in young children has never been validated.
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Prudent medicine, therefore, suggests caution in acetaminophen use by young children,
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especially since strong evidence also has associated it with liver toxicity.
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Some studies have also found the use of acetaminophen in children can potentially prolong viral illnesses.
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FDA will drive new research to safeguard mothers, children, and families.
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In addition to a possible acetaminophen connection to autism for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers,
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our research has revealed that folate deficiency in a child's brain can lead to autism.
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We have also identified an exciting therapy that may benefit large numbers of children who suffer from autism.
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peer-reviewed literature has documented that up to 60% of folate-deficient children with ASD
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can improve verbal communications if given leucovorin.
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I have instructed NIH, FDA, and CMS to help doctors treat children appropriately.
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Jay will help tell that story, which started with sound science, the kind that restores faith in government.
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The announcement, this announcement also represents a historic collaboration between NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS.
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We expect this to be the first of many announcements over the coming years
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that deliver actionable information to parents on underlying cause of autism
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and the potential paths for prevention and reversal.
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Finally, autism is a complex disorder with multifactorial etiology.
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We are continuing to investigate a multiplicity of potential causes with no areas of taboo.
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One area that we are closely examining, as the president mentioned, is vaccines.
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Some 40 to 70% of mothers who have children with autism believe that their child was injured by a vaccine.
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President Trump believes that we should be listening to these mothers instead of gaslighting and marginalizing them like prior administrations.
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Some of our friends like to say that we should believe all women.
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Some of the same people have been silencing and demonizing these mothers for three decades
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because research on the potential link between autism and vaccines has been actively suppressed in the past.
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It will take time for an honest look at this topic by scientists.
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But I want to reassure the people in the autism community that we will be uncompromising and relentless in our search for answers.
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We will perform the studies that should have been performed 25 years ago.
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Whatever the answer is, we will tell you what we find.
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We are researching this issue to all three agencies.
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Jay will discuss one of our research initiatives at NIH.
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This model of unleashing unbiased, depoliticized, gold standard of scientific research and academic freedom
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to deliver actionable information to prevent and reverse disease
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will be a model for the framework to deliver similar results from any other chronic conditions that plague Americans.
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Obviously, this is a much longer show than we normally do.
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But I want to make sure you could hear directly from the president and RFK Jr.
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in their entirety of what they had to say on a very important issue.
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One thing that I also want you to look at is this.
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Isn't it great to have this type of transparency back in our government
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that when there was a guy by the name of Anthony Fauci that was running all of this?
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And you have to give thanks to the president for that.
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