The most recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an increase in diagnoses of autism ...

Despite what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have you believe, it isn’t autism itself that’s caused us the most harm, but the ways ...

An autism registry will not be created, a spokesperson for the United States Department of Health and Human Services told ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data this month showing that 1 in 31 children in the U.S. is autistic. As researchers and physicians, we welcome the growing national ...

R obert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has shone a spotlight on ...

A new study from the CDC shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among U.S. children, which experts have largely ...

Disability advocates urge funding education and services for autistic people — not surveillance-style data collection.

Autism numbers in the U.S. are on the upswing, with 1 in 31 8-year-olds (3.2%) diagnosed in 2022. In 2000, the ratio was 1 in ...

Eric Fombonne, an Oregon Health & Science University professor emeritus of psychiatry, said he doesn’t know how researchers would begin to investigate the "environmental toxins" Kennedy mentioned, ...

Celebrities with a personal connection to autism are speaking out after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made controversial claims about ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a disease registry to track Americans with autism. Why it matters: ...

The health secretary's reported plan to create a registry to track Americans with autism has been met with backlash.