In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These ...

The incidence of Parkinson's disease was therefore very low -- 24 cases among 51,954 people with autism (0.05 per cent), and 438 among 22,26,611 people without autism (0.02 per cent).

President Trump said Thursday that autism must not occur naturally, citing figures inflating the spike in autism and suggesting the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commissi… ...

In the 1990s, 1 in 1,000 individuals was diagnosed with autism. Today, it’s closer to 1 in 31.

“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” Kennedy said. However, many scientists who have spent their careers studying ...

Autism researchers are facing massive cuts to federal funding, misinformation about the condition they study and worrisome policy announcements. RFK Jr. said his agency will find the cause of autism.

Experts push back after RFK Jr. questions CDC autism data 03:56. A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have ...

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a ...

Experts push back after RFK Jr. questions CDC autism data 03:56. The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to ...

Autism rates are higher than ever before, probably because of more expansive and sensitive diagnoses. Those numbers highlight the need for more support for people with autism.

You may hear Autism Acceptance Day called Autism Awareness Day—with the same going for Autism Awareness Month as opposed to Autism Acceptance Month—but in recent years, autism groups and ...