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IndexHealth & MedicineNo. 19 declining

Tylenol

Medication

17×
vs its own baseline
18×
year on year
-5.1%
per month, last 90 days
79
confidence / 100
0k 5k 10k 15k where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 1,500% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

16.00×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

21%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

38%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.92× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Tylenol is a brand of medication, advertised for reducing pain, reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies, cold, cough, headache, and influenza. An active ingredient in these medications is acetaminophen (paracetamol), an analgesic and antipyretic, although other ingredients with significant effects are included in some variants. Like the generic names paracetamol and acetaminophen, the brand name Tylenol is derived from a chemical name for the compound,…

Excerpt from Tylenol on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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+631%
vs baseline
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