Autism diagnoses have increased dramatically, with 1 in 36 children now affected. Explore the real reasons behind this surge and what it means for families.

There was a New York Times headline that caught our eye this week - "Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played A Role In That." It's an opinion piece written by Dr. Allen Frances. Dr. Frances ...

I'm the reason autism rates have soared... it's left me guilt-ridden Dr Allen Frances, a top psychiatrist, led an update to the guidelines for diagnosing autism in 1994 that loosened the ...

Around 70 per cent of people who joined the National Disability Insurance Scheme last year had a primary diagnosis of autism, and most were children, it has been revealed.

An estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this month, marking another jump in a long string of increases. The CDC's data was from ...

He described autism as “a preventable disease” and pledged to identify the environmental culprit by September. “We’re going to follow the science no matter what it says,” Kennedy said.

Other factors have also contributed to an increase in autism diagnoses over the years, including: improved screening and earlier diagnosis increased awareness and advocacy diagnostic substitution. 1.

0 seconds of 4 minutes, 17 secondsVolume 90% 00:00 04:17 RFK Jr. links autism rise to ‘environmental toxins,' contradicting CDC findings 04:17 ...

An estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this month, marking another jump in a long string of increases. The CDC's data was from ...