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

The HHS secretary’s statements about the prevalence of autism and its causes contradict current scientific consensus.

Let's presume for argument's sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism ...

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 ...

Branch Brook School, the first elementary school dedicated solely to serving students with autism, has opened in Newark.

Autism researchers are facing massive cuts to federal funding, misinformation about the condition they study and worrisome ...

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

Autism, an umbrella term for a spectrum of developmental disorders that can look vastly different from one person to the next ...

For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm — from autism to sudden death — ...

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

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism.

The proposal by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an insulting waste of time — at best.