April is Autism Acceptance Month. So how is our nation’s top health official marking the occasion? By setting the movement for autism acceptance back by…oh, just several decades. Casting ...

Kennedy Jr. said April 10 during a meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet that the government will know the cause of the "autism epidemic” by September, and will be able to "eliminate those ...

Kennedy Jr. for restarting the national conversation about autism. At a Wednesday news conference, the health and human services secretary declared autism an epidemic, noted an increasing ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised this week to spend more money researching the environmental causes of autism, which he said would yield answers to the ...

WASHINGTON- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that toxins in the environment contribute to autism with a series of new studies to investigate the issue as ...

Some of the earliest studies on autism diagnosis from the 1960s and 1970s did estimate autism prevalence to be in the range of 2 to 4 cases for every 10,000 children, but that was many decades ago.

The HHS head does not believe the rising rate of autism spectrum disorder is linked to improvements in diagnostic practices, contradicting what the CDC says in a ...

The United States government will identify the cause of autism by September this year, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jnr said on Thursday. “At your direction ...

The US health secretary wants to find out what's causing an "autism epidemic" by September. Autism advocates and scientists alike are skeptical about his goals. Are autism rates really on the rise?

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's top health official, has sparked controversy with his recent comments on autism. During a 30-minute address, Kennedy Jr. criticized the ...