A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to get to the bottom of surging autism rates, but a new analysis finds that ...

Kennedy has said his agency will explore possible causes of autism and plans to release findings by September. The CDC ...

Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, is launching a new autism research institute in Philadelphia, he announced Tuesday.

Senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya the day after more than 300 NIH staff members sent him a fiery letter ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate ...

Kennedy has said autism ”destroys families.” He said children with autism “will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, ...

The National Institutes of Health is soliciting proposals for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s autism data project, ...

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

When looking at the rates of autism diagnoses, it is clear that significantly more people are being diagnosed with the ...

Playing baseball, writing poetry, going out on dates — these are all activities that individuals with autism will “never be ...