Erin McCanlies was listening to the radio one morning in April when she heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising to find the ...

NIH's new strategy emphasizes transparency, prioritizes urgent health needs, and shifts focus to domestic research and ...

Regulatory NIH to back RFK Jr. autism research campaign with comprehensive data resource from patients' medical records By Emma Beavins Apr 22, 2025 5:00pm ...

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s federal labor, health, human services, and education ...

NIH autism study will pull from private medical records Alana Wise April 23, 2025 / 10:06 am ...

Concerns about RFK Jr.’s NIH autism data collection Christopher Banks, CEO of the Autism Society of America, told NewsNation that his organization has “deep concerns” about NIH collecting ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released ...

WHY THIS MATTERS RFK Jr. has called autism an epidemic in which cases have risen from 1 in 10,000 years ago to a current 1 in 31. Scientists have debunked Kennedy's theory that vaccines cause Autism ...

"NIH has been funding studies related to autism for many years," she said, noting that CMS has made data available to researchers since 2015 and is required to comply with HIPAA rules, which set ...

The NIH did not return a request for comment. Kennedy has made autism research a central pillar of his role as America's official health advocate.