Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a dizzying amount of changes to federal health agencies in his first six months as HHS ...

Key Takeaways Under fire, federal health officials say they will not create a new autism registry Research will use existing, de-identified health data $50 million will be used to fund autism and ...

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

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

Staff at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment are concerned about plans to create a registry of Americans with ...

A new nationwide study from Denmark found no evidence that aluminum salts in childhood vaccines are linked to autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), asthma, or 47 other chronic ...

Worry about the direction of federal health policies was the first reaction, but staff is now more concerned about families.

Autism is "not a free pass for bad behaviour", a spokesman for the charity Neurodiversity in Business told the BBC, and Wallace's latest defence will "stigmatise" autistic people and "add an ...

Setting the record straight on autism: What science really says, and why recent government proposals threaten progress and privacy.

Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a complex neurological and developmental condition that affects how individuals interact with others, communicate, learn and behave[1][2][3][4]. The ...

RFK Jr.'s government autism registry is really frightening Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about a surge in autism cases on April 16. Credit: Getty Images/Alex Wong ...