New Delhi: Physicians in the United States will soon be advised not to prescribe common pain-reliever and anti-fever medicine Tylenol to pregnant women, President Donald Trump announced Monday, citing what is being seen as its “unscientific” links with some neurological disorders in children.

Tylenol is a popular brand by Kenvue, a spin-off of US-based pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, which has acetaminophen or paracetamol as its Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (APIs). It is a drug approved for over-the-counter (OTC) sale in the country and also the only OTC drug for fever in pregnant women.

The US president claimed that taking Tylenol, simply known as paracetamol in most countries, “is no good” and that pregnant women should “fight like hell” to only take it in cases of extr

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