The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

CMS and NIH will start this partnership by establishing a data use agreement under CMS' Research Data Disclosure Program ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

The autism community mobilizes against a federal database that many fear could threaten privacy and autonomy. Advocates ...

The HHS secretary’s statements about the prevalence of autism and its causes contradict current scientific consensus.

The U.S. Health and Human Services department will start a research project to examine medical data and records of Medicaid ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

Kristyn Roth, chief marketing officer of the Autism Society of America, said Kennedy’s claims about autistic children’s ...

Families and advocates are praising action taken to protect people in Illinois who have autism. On Wednesday, Gov. J.B.

The National Institutes of Health director said they were launching an autism registry — but a Health and Human Services ...