Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made various claims regarding autism in the youth of ...

These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. this week linked “environmental toxins” to autism after a new CDC ...

The Autism Society of America’s Chief Marketing Officer Kristyn Roth described Kennedy’s focus on an environmental toxin as ...

Autism incidence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022, according to a report released ...

For Matthew Kenslow, his time came in the power of social media to teach the world about autism. “We’re not different than anyone else. It’s just how our minds work,” Kenslow said.

Globally, autism affects about one in every 100 children, with boys being four times more likely to be diagnosed than girls, according to research by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The effect was felt across the CDC, as workers in the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP), the Division of Population Health, the Division of HIV Prevention, the Division ...

What is disturbing are news reports that Mr. Kennedy has tapped David Geier, a longtime vaccine critic, to assist with a CDC study of vaccines and autism. The White House hasn’t confirmed the ...

Among other things, the father-son duo claimed at an Institute of Medicine panel in 2004 that CDC data showed vaccines were linked to autism — and the claim was “refuted by scientists at the ...

It comes as the CDC has so far confirmed 483 measles cases this year in at least 19 states: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey ...