WASHINGTON -- Private medical data for millions of Americans is being collected by the government as part of ongoing efforts ...

In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of ...

The health secretary called autism a “preventable disease” and claimed that people with the disorder will never go out on ...

The Health and Human Services secretary has vowed to do detailed studies on the causes of autism, which he has referred to as ...

WASHINGTON -- Private medical data for millions of Americans is being collected by the government as part of ongoing efforts by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to study ...

Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with experts and advocates about the rise in autism ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to receive access to a vast trove of Americans’ private ...

But that’s not all Kennedy said about people with autism. Shortly after mentioning that a study calculated the “cost of ...

The health secretary's reported plan to create a registry to track Americans with autism has been met with backlash.

In more recent decades, the diagnostic criteria for autism have broadened, producing a spectrum ranging from severe impacts to more modest ones. Today’s definition encompasses “individuals with milder ...

Autistic people have the same hopes, dreams and yes, the same awkward dating moments as anyone else,” Dani Bowman told NewsNation.

Parents who believe, or lean toward believing, false claims about the measles vaccine say they delayed or skipped some ...