In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, struck an alarmist tone about new findings that ...

The most recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an increase in diagnoses of autism ...

While the agency stressed that increased screening was most likely behind much of the increase, the health secretary, Robert ...

Eric Fombonne, an Oregon Health & Science University professor emeritus of psychiatry, said he doesn’t know how researchers would begin to investigate the "environmental toxins" Kennedy mentioned, ...

CDC data found one in 31 eight-year-old kids were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2022, an increase from one in 36 ...

A new study from the CDC shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among U.S. children, which experts have largely ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who for years lived in Westchester County and ran for president in ...

The health secretary said he would prioritize studies into environmental causes while harshly discounting other factors ...

We have in some states as low as 1 out of 20 boys having autism, 1 out of 31 kids. And when I was, in my generation today, the rate of autism was 1 in 10,000," Health and Human Services Secretary ...

Kennedy's remarks contradict conclusions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency he oversees.

Areas with the highest autism rates also devoted resources to early detection, the report noted. The report examined communities of various sizes, including a portion of a south-central Texas ...