The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced the appointment of 21 new members to a federal committee that advises health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on autism.

Concerns about autism have been spotlighted within the larger Make America Healthy Again movement, motivated by a well-founded alarm over the nation’s devastatingly high burden of chronic disease and ...

The autism advisory board includes members who have expressed skepticism about vaccine safety and its link to autism despite ...

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Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen ...

The autism epidemic is running rampant,” said U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “One in 31 American chil ...

Federal health officials are reviving a key panel tasked with guiding the government's strategy on autism, but the new ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." HEALTH SECRETARY ROBERT F. Kennedy Jr.’s previous go-to scapegoat for autism was vaccines. Now, it’s ...

While this condition has historically been thought to affect men and boys more often, new research shows otherwise.

The head of the National Institutes of Health admitted that he doesn’t think vaccines cause autism, unlike his boss, Robert F ...