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

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

Public health is worsening, autism rates are rising — and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root ...

We’re not going to find a smoking gun that is going to explain the incidence of autism. And it’s certainly not going to be ...

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said in April when announcing his department’s new ...

Kennedy has said autism ”destroys families.” He said children with autism “will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, ...

Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being diagnosed with autism at higher rates and researchers ... Autism diagnoses are on the rise—soaring by as much ...

A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit ...

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

obesity and autism, which he said is "getting worse," with rates now 1 in 31 — an increase from one in 10,000 children decades ago. Medical experts, however, attribute those numbers to better ...