The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...

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

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and ...

CMS and NIH will start this partnership by establishing a data use agreement under CMS' Research Data Disclosure Program ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

Ms. May said what too many of us parents of autistic children have been forced to bury. Profound autism is not an idea. It’s not an identity slogan. It’s a reality that steals language, safety and ...

The U.S. Health and Human Services department will start a research project to examine medical data and records of Medicaid ...

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

The autism community mobilizes against a federal database that many fear could threaten privacy and autonomy. Advocates ...

Families and advocates are praising action taken to protect people in Illinois who have autism. On Wednesday, Gov. J.B.

Kristyn Roth, chief marketing officer of the Autism Society of America, said Kennedy’s claims about autistic children’s ...