Michigan's top health official questions Kennedy's research timeline while autism advocates criticize his characterization of ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a community of ...

As the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a ...

Love on the Spectrum star James B. Jones is speaking out against RFK Jr., calling his misinformation “harmful and irresponsible.” Jones, a vocal advocate for the autism community, emphasized the ...

When RFK, Jr., said “environmental toxins” are causing autism, do you think he was talking about vaccines? Well, I listened very carefully to his testimony [on Wednesday]. And he will not rule ...

While RFK did not mention vaccines in the conference, he recently appointed a controversial senior data analyst to the HHS, who has long attempted to tie vaccines to autism. According to the New ...

Is the government studying autism? Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month launched a "massive testing and re­search effort" that he says by September will reveal the mystery of what ...

Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic. That’s because it appears to ignore decades of science ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses autism at a news conference in D.C. on April 16. When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Sheryl Gay ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on May 7, 2025, to reflect that the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a partnership on that day ...