HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the agency is planning to study what causes autism and release results in September.

Scientists who have dedicated their careers to studying autism remain highly skeptical that a definitive answer to what ...

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

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

Kennedy Jr. recently said the nation’s top health agency would undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism by September 2025. The comments by Kennedy ...

The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.

Love on the Spectrum' stars Dani Bowman and James B. Jones respond to RFK Jr.'s autism misinformation, including his plans to ...

We already know a lot about the disorder and why its prevalence has increased.

WASHINGTON -- Private medical data for millions of Americans is being collected by the government as part of ongoing efforts ...

The work RFK Jr. promises to complete by September does nothing to help autistic individuals and their families.

The National Institutes of Health will provide private health data to researchers for U.S. health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the department will shift its research into autism toward potential environmental causes, though he declined to ...