Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study autism, the NIH's top official said Monday. The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy's autism studies to study "comprehensive" patient data ...

Another example of this are emerging ties between gut health and autism. Exciting new research, now moving to Phase 3 human trials, has found boosting microbial diversity via fecal transplants can ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. − who has long spread debunked claims surrounding autism and vaccines − suggested compensating families of some Americans with autism ...

Autism is a bigger scourge than Covid-19 was because the latter “killed old people,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a radio interview that aired Sunday.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed autism is caused by environmental toxins and is preventable, contradicting scientific consensus. The recent increase in autism prevalence likely ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a new interview, said autism was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is an epidemic. It dwarfs ...

Autism advocate Andi Putt responds to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, who said that the neurodevelopmental condition "destroys families" Andi Putt When I heard ...

Eva Erickson, an autistic contestant on the television show "Survivor" from Rhode Island, is clapping back at Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his recent remarks ...

Kennedy Jr. deliver his first press conference since becoming the federal health secretary, one statement in particular stunned him: "Autism destroys families." "Instead of destroying our family ...

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.

Alex Wong/Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, is claiming that the impact of autism exceeds the impact of COVID-19 on American lives during a new interview.

By Maggie Astor Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that autism “destroys” children have prompted outrage among many autistic people, who said they had ...