Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

Health and Human Services says an autism registry is meant to help find a cause, but some parents in the Cumberland County ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to ...

Democrat Pritzker, who has been one of the more vocal critics of Trump’s second administration, signed the order last week, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to investigate the causes of autism.

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

Without Medicaid, Maribeth Watson's daughter, born prematurely, may not have survived. Now Congress may cut the programs that ...

Speaking at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.