Acetaminophen Overdoses More Common During Flu Season, Study Finds

During flu and cold season, patients are nearly 25 percent likelier to take too much of the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen — one of whose brand names is Tylenol, and which is an ingredient in hundreds of medications — than they are the rest of the year. That’s what researchers found when they studied 14,481 patients […]

In a Daily Beast piece, Dr. Paul Offit, M.D. notes that despite several studies showing that vaccines containing the preservative thimerisol are no more likely to cause autism than vaccines without thimerisol, parent fears about thimerisol-containing vaccines persist – with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leading the charge. If President Trump appoints Kennedy to lead a […]