Kennedy called autism an "epidemic" at his first press conference as the secretary of health and human services on April 16 Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

Kennedy Jr. to meet. Singer’s brother and daughter are two of the millions living with autism in the United States, and part of a much larger community that has very publicly expressed feeling ...

You can reach Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, a Department of Health and Human Services official said in ...

Kennedy Jr.—is planning to study potential connections between vaccines and autism, Reuters reported Friday, a link Kennedy has controversially pushed in the past. Two unnamed sources familiar ...

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Sheryl Gay ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of the autism spectrum disorder, creating a database of ...

May 22 (UPI) --Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked back his timeline for determining the causes of autism, a report originally scheduled to be released in September.