The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...

Federal health officials didn’t provide information about how people’s private medical data will be collected and managed.

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a partnership between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unveiling plans to give researchers access to data on enrollees with autism, though ...

The National Institutes of Health director said they were launching an autism registry — but a Health and Human Services ...

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

The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.” ...

The Autism Self Advocacy Network lambasted the project as an example of how the administration has “completely frozen out autistic people.” HHS nodded to those concerns in its announcement ...

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...