Another person wrote, "RFK Jr.'s autism registry is a chilling overreach, tracking private medical data without consent violates HIPAA and echoes eugenics. It's not about health; it's about control.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been known for his unproven and fringe views, including attempts to link autism to factors such as vaccines without evidence. Now ...

Staff at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment are concerned about plans to create a registry of Americans with ...

Richard Angwin, an X user with more than 190,000 followers, wrote: "RFK Jr.'s autism registry is a chilling overreach, tracking private medical data without consent violates HIPAA and echoes eugenics.

On April 22, 2025, CBS News reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch a "disease registry" to track Americans with autism as part of U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is set to amass the private medical records of Americans for a new autism study. On April 21, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — director ...

When she heard RFK Jr. launched a national autism registry and claimed he would identify the environmental causes of autism, she did not hear hope, but rather a warning sign.

RFK Jr.'s government autism registry is really frightening Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about a surge in autism cases on April 16. Credit: Getty Images/Alex Wong ...

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

BOISE, Idaho — There has been plenty of political talk lately with presidential promises, debates about public health and now autism. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to identify the cause of ...

"We're using this partnership to uncover the root causes of autism and other chronic diseases," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. HHS said that CMS and NIH would establish a ...