Eric Fombonne, an Oregon Health & Science University professor emeritus of psychiatry, said he doesn’t know how researchers would begin to investigate the "environmental toxins" Kennedy mentioned, ...

"To organize a large-scale U.S. effort on behalf of autism and autism epidemiology will take a lot of time," researcher ...

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

This is my son we're talking about. And millions of others like him. They are not statistics. They are not burdens. They are ...

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

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a disease registry to track Americans with autism. Why it matters: ...

The National Institutes of Health is looking to create a registry of autistic people, which, yes, has horrifying historical ...

The health secretary's reported plan to create a registry to track Americans with autism has been met with backlash.

But that’s not all Kennedy said about people with autism. Shortly after mentioning that a study calculated the “cost of ...

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 ...