In the 1990s, 1 in 1,000 individuals was diagnosed with autism. Today, it’s closer to 1 in 31.

Parents say off-label drug helped son with autism speak 03:42. Caroline Connor's concerns about her son Mason's development began around his first birthday, when she noticed he wasn't talking or ...

The U.S. government released new data this week showing that rates of autism diagnoses among U.S. children reached record highs in 2022.

More boys and men have traditionally been diagnosed with autism than girls and women. That’s because researchers have mostly studied males, and symptoms vary by gender, cognitive neuroimaging ...

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The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including that it has become 'an epidemic'. A board certified family medicine ...

Experts push back after RFK Jr. questions CDC autism data 03:56. The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to ...

A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations and autism has been tapped by the federal government to conduct a critical study of possible links ...

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, is correct that reported autism rates have exploded in the last 30 years — they’ve increased roughly 60-fold — but he is dead ...

Hanna Rosin: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is very concerned about autism. He has been for a couple of decades, since he first became convinced that mercury in vaccines made children autistic, which by ...