On 16 April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr held a press conference about rising diagnoses of autism. The US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary pointed to new data showing that autism prevalence in the ...

Share on Pinterest A family medicine physician helps Medical News Today fact-check recent claims about the prevalence of autism and its risk factors. Image credit: Jennifer Bogle/Stocksy. Posts on ...

This article is part of The Dallas Morning News' initiative to answer questions about vaccines. Got a question? Ask us here. In the late 1990s, a theory gripped parents around the world: What if ...

Share on Pinterest Despite a unanimous scientific consensus on the safety of childhood vaccines, the debate over whether they cause autism continues. Sean Locke/Stocksy United A large new study by ...

Autism is more common than ever before, a new report suggests. As of 2022, about 1 in 31 children in the United States were diagnosed with autism by the time they were 8 years old, researchers ...

"Autism is not a processing error. It's a different operating system." –Sarah Hendrickx According to the National Institute of Mental Health, autism is a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House announcement about autism is expected Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump's weekend comment that "I think we found an answer" to the developmental disorder.