The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are leery of the new initiative, which they say is rushed and skirts typical ...

A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to get to the bottom of surging autism rates, but a new analysis finds that ...

Kennedy has said his agency will explore possible causes of autism and plans to release findings by September. The CDC ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate ...

Senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya the day after more than 300 NIH staff members sent him a fiery letter ...

Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, is launching a new autism research institute in Philadelphia, he announced Tuesday.

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

When looking at the rates of autism diagnoses, it is clear that significantly more people are being diagnosed with the ...

Kennedy has said autism ”destroys families.” He said children with autism “will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, ...

The National Institutes of Health is soliciting proposals for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s autism data project, ...