The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will not create a new autism registry, reversing an earlier announcement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "We are not ...

We’re not going to find a smoking gun that is going to explain the incidence of autism. And it’s certainly not going to be ...

A statement that denies the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is compiling an autism registry, but says instead that it is creating a sweeping database of existing health records ...

His idea evokes the danger posed historically by officials who view people who are mentally ill or physically disabled as a ...

The Autism Science Foundation said the program raised concerns over privacy and confidentiality. On Friday, April 25, an HHS official told USA TODAY it is not creating such a registry. Here is ...

The governor issued an executive order after the NIH announced plans to use the proposed database to discover a ...

Rather than addressing the real needs of autistic people and their families, measures like these reflect a fundamental ...

Michigan's top health official questions Kennedy's research timeline while autism advocates criticize his characterization of ...