The manufacturers of the painkiller Tylenol (acetaminophen; paracetamol in the UK) are being sued over allegations that they hid unproven links between the drug and autism in children from pregnant women.
Ken Paxton, attorney general of the US state of Texas and a supporter of President Donald Trump, sued both the well known drug maker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Kenvue, a J&J spin-off that has manufactured Tylenol since 2023.
“Johnson & Johnson willfully ignored and attempted to silence the science that prenatal and early-childhood exposure to …
