An autism science group called out "red flags" this week after the National Institutes of Health appeared to share plans for an autism registry in a meeting on April 21. Now, the U.S. Department ...

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the ...

Is RFK Jr. Making an ‘Autism Registry’? The internet recently went abuzz with claims that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new registry to track ...

Michigan's top health official questions Kennedy's research timeline while autism advocates criticize his characterization of the condition as an "epidemic." ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

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 ...

Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a complex neurological and developmental condition that affects how individuals ...

into autism when they were 2 years old ... Building a government-run registry using private information must be serving another purpose. History warns us that those purposes can be hugely ...

Trump's "MAHA" commission, led by RFK Jr., detailed four reasons they say causes childhood chronic disease. Here's what to know in New Jersey.