By Ahmed Aboulenein

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his call for pregnant women and young children to stop using popular pain medication Tylenol, defying widespread criticism from medical groups, and offered further healthcare advice not backed by science.

In an extraordinary news conference at the White House on Monday, Trump linked autism to childhood vaccines and the taking of Tylenol by women when pregnant, elevating claims not backed by scientific evidence to the forefront of U.S. health policy.

In a Truth Social post on Friday, the Republican president again called for the measles-mumps-rubella combination vaccine to be split into separate shots, and for children not to get the hepatitis B vaccine, normally given in the first 24 hours after bir

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