For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in ...

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

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients ...

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 ...

We already know a lot about the disorder and why its prevalence has increased.

RFK Jr.’s peddling of the long-debunked lie that vaccines or environmental toxins cause autism, and framing autistic people ...

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

If you are not one of the people who was deeply offended by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent statements about the deficiencies of people with autism, I will ...

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

Members of the autism community are pushing back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to find the cause for autism by September, calling the plan harmful.