The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

Medical experts, along with people on the autism spectrum, told PolitiFact that Kennedy’s portrayal was skewed.

Kennedy has questioned whether children need to get the vaccine, citing that kids are very unlikely to die from the disease.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said the study would address the “cause of the rise in autism” that ...

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

This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. In mid-March, the parents of a 6-year-old girl in Texas ...

On Monday morning, a seemingly unassuming email arrived in inboxes across a national network of food safety laboratories. It ...

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

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

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

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to slash 10,000 employees in a major restructuring of the whole department, ...