Staff report The Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley has a new executive director, at least temporarily, after Stacie Bacorn resigned after her guilty plea earlier this week in Stark County Common ...

Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being diagnosed with autism at higher rates and researchers say that has to do in part with a better understanding of the ...

The agency has funded about 4,600 autism-related projects since 2021, with an annual average of $525 million over the past four years. Reuters calculated its funding estimates for autism-related ...

Autism, or autism spectrum disorder, has been a topic in the news a lot recently, yet the complex neurological condition remains widely misunderstood. Autism is a difference in how someone’s ...

Last month, HHS had denied it was creating a new autism registry following media reports that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told staff the agency would create one. On Monday, Kennedy told Fox News ...

Recently, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been the focus of much conversation and confusion. With so much information and misinformation available, it's important to separate fact from fiction. In ...

The annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research took place in Seattle from April 30–May 3, 2025. In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services disclosed that it ...

It is true that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said during an April 21, 2025, meeting that the agency planned to launch a "new disease registry" to "track Americans with autism" as part of an ...

On Thursday, an HHS spokesperson said that the agency was developing “a secure data repository” of “large-scale, de-identified data to better understand the causes of conditions like autism ...

Kennedy Jr. told Trump that his agency had “launched a massive testing and research effort” that would “involve hundreds of scientists from around the world” and that “by September we will know what ...

The topic was what he described as an “alarming … epidemic” of autism, supposedly documented ... advised to spend more time reading his own agency’s report before citing it at his news ...