His idea evokes the danger posed historically by officials who view people who are mentally ill or physically disabled as a ...

Some portion of the rise in autism rates may be unrelated to better ... “This idea that there needs to be one single cause, and it needs to be really scary—it’s just really taking us ...

Despite evidence that suggests there is no one single cause of autism ... water or medicine — are likely contributing to rising autism rates in kids. He called autism a “preventable disease ...

They say rising rates have to with improved screening ... UCLA's Lord said Kennedy's focus on discovering autism's causes is a distraction from the "many things we could do now to help the ...

Kennedy Jr. made some scientifically unfounded comments about the cause of autism, calling rising autism rates an epidemic. He went on to paint a bleak picture of the life of autistic persons.

Kennedy Jr. has vowed to discover the cause of autism by September, saying the “autism epidemic is running rampant.” While cases are on the rise — often because of better screening and ...

Kennedy Jr. said in a televised presidential cabinet meeting Thursday that his agency will investigate and identify the cause of rising autism rates in the U.S. by September, though scientists ...

One reason it's common to be alarmed about increasing autism diagnoses, says Gross, is that societies generally haven't built ...

HHS released a statement on April 15 that contradicted the CDC report, and said the rising incidence of autism ... debunked claims that vaccines cause autism. In his confirmation hearings, Kennedy ...

Kennedy Sets September Deadline to Identify Cause of Rising US Autism Rates By Ahmed Aboulenein and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will identify the cause of autism by ...

Calling rising rates of autism an epidemic is "incredibly ... a multimillion-dollar research program examining the causes of autism that would also look into the link between autism and the ...