The prescription drug leucovorin is getting a label update, though it’s not what that the US Food and Drug Administration suggested might be coming during a White House briefing in September, when ...

Six months ago, the federal government loudly proclaimed the likely benefits of an existing drug called leucovorin for treating autism. Now that proclamation has officially turned into a whimper. On ...

It's a major step back from statements made at a White House news conference in September, when President Donald Trump and ...

The Trump administration appears to be walking back its statements from last year that the prescription drug leucovorin can be used to treat certain patients with autism. The Food and Drug ...

After President Donald Trump’s September 2025 unsupported claim that autism is linked to the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) in pregnancy and that leucovorin may help autistic children, US Tylenol use ...

“There is no evidence to say that leucovorin will help most people with autism, and there’s certainly no evidence to say it’s safe,” said Dr. Alycia Halladay of the Autism Science Foundation, in an ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved expanded use of Wellcovorin (leucovorin calcium) tablets for the treatment of cerebral folate deficiency in adult and pediatric patients who ...

The word was folate. Six letters, two syllables, a vitamin found in leafy greens. Not a particularly fearsome word, by the standards of a spelling bee that had already run 13 or 14 rounds. But when it ...