Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has vowed to address rising U.S. autism rates as a top health priority for the Trump ...

Rise of Tracy Beth Høeg. Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD, a sports medicine physician focused on ultramarathon runners who rose to ...

"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.

Those of us who are professionals in the field did a collective eye roll,” one expert said of RFK’s recent statements.

The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, charges that cutting $800 million in medical ...

A coalition of autism scientists has formed to counter RFK, Jr.’s misrepresentations of science and of autism spectrum ...

With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s agenda has won praise from some whose loved ones have severe complications from autism. But others say his rhetoric fails to accurately portray people on the ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $575,113 three-year grant from the National Institutes ...

By analyzing private health records, Kennedy aims to find a “cure” for what he calls the “autism epidemic” by September — an ...

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related ...

Yet during the first four months of 2025, the NIH has reduced funding for autism-related research by an estimated $31 million to $116 million from $147 million in the same period in 2024 ...