Public health is worsening, autism rates are rising — and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root ...

As the number of children diagnosed with autism increases, local autism centers offering services for families has followed ...

RFK Jr is long known for his anti-vaccine stance and the belief that it causes autism. After he fired the vaccine advising committee, he has now hired a known vaccine skeptic and autism critic to look ...

Sonia Malhotra began searching for effective support for her son after his autism diagnosis—a path that led her to applied ...

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said in April when announcing his department’s new ...

The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including ...

The CDC is planning a large study of vaccines and autism. Instead, we should be studying the complex genetic and ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a community of ...

A recent study shows that a growing number of adults are learning they've been living with autism for their entire lives. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, recorded a 450% increase in ...

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Boys continue to be diagnosed more than girls, and the highest rates are among children who are Asian/Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native and Black. To estimate how common autism is ...