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 ...

Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder, is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people communicate, behave ...

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

The latest report on autism from the CDC found that autism rates in 8-year-olds rose from 1 in 36 in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022, ...

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the ...

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said "it's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance." ...

Mainers gathered for Downeast Horizons' Autism Awareness Walk-a-thon, raising nearly $5,000 to support families and challenge ...

Rosie O’Donnell said she left the U.S. to protect her autistic, nonbinary child from the Trump administration, including ...

A top US science official on Tuesday backed away from a bold promise made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reveal ...

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is amassing Americans' private medical records for a new autism study. Data will be collected from ...