The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients ...

RFK Jr.’s peddling of the long-debunked lie that vaccines or environmental toxins cause autism, and framing autistic people ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his new nominee for surgeon general would be Dr. Casey Means, a wellness ...

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...

We already know a lot about the disorder and why its prevalence has increased.

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

The autism community mobilizes against a federal database that many fear could threaten privacy and autonomy. Advocates ...

Readers, including some with autism, rebut Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements. Also: President Trump vs.