The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are ...

A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.

A longtime vaccine critic hired by HHS Secretary RFK Jr is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit debunked claims that vaccines may cause autism.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to get to the bottom of surging autism rates, but a new analysis finds that ...

Senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya the day after more than 300 NIH staff members sent him a fiery letter ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate ...

Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, is launching a new autism research institute in Philadelphia, he announced Tuesday.

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

Read more from STAT’s Chelsea Cirruzzo. Scientists are worried about the NIH’s new autism initiative It sounds good at first: NIH’s new autism initiative offers researchers $50 million to ...

The National Institutes of Health is soliciting proposals for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s autism data project, ...

When looking at the rates of autism diagnoses, it is clear that significantly more people are being diagnosed with the ...

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