The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including ...

As the number of children diagnosed with autism increases, local autism centers offering services for families has followed suit.

The finding, based on an analysis of medical records from 2022, reflects a dramatic rise in autism over the past two decades. Previous CDC reports showed that 1 in 54 8-year-olds had been ...

Autism diagnoses have increased dramatically, with 1 in 36 children now affected. Explore the real reasons behind this surge ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls ... Why are autism numbers rising? Health officials largely attribute ...

Yet the alarm he created was real, leading to falling MMR rates and rising measles ... also studying how to detect autism even earlier in life using brain wave analysis on infants well before ...

One meta analysis of several twin studies found ... Kennedy has referred to autism as a "disease" and that the rising rate of autism diagnoses is an "epidemic." MORE: MMR vaccine rates are lagging ...

“This was no half-baked survey based analysis,” he said ... presenting it as clearly showing that the steep rise in observed autism rates is real — something it does not do.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has vowed to address rising U.S. autism rates as a top health priority for the Trump ...