The federal government must recognize the full spectrum of people with autism, not just those who are verbal and self-sufficient. Families such as mine are overwhelmed. We need long-term care ...

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

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from ...

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

Pritzker said the order was necessary in response to concerns about the creation of a federal autism registry or database without legal protections.

The Department of Health and Human Services denied that it would create an autism health registry after advocates for the autistic community expressed fear about reported plans for one. An HHS ...

Some $50 million will be invested in the research effort, which includes the data platform, the HHS official's statement said, which is "aimed at understanding the causes of ASD [autism spectrum ...

The Autism Science Foundation said the program raised concerns over privacy and confidentiality. On Friday, April 25, an HHS official told USA TODAY it is not creating such a registry. Here is ...