Autism diagnoses have increased dramatically, with 1 in 36 children now affected. Explore the real reasons behind this surge ...

Last week, Kennedy set a September deadline for the U.S. National Institutes of Health to determine the cause behind the rise in autism rates. The CDC says many studies have looked at whether ...

The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including ...

Areas with the highest autism rates also devoted resources ... of a book that examines the genetic causes of autism, said what has been described as the rise of autism instead reflects an increase ...

While the agency stressed that increased screening was most likely behind much of the increase ... were found to have autism in 2022, compared with 1 in 36 in 2020. That rate is nearly five ...

For that reason, Fombonne said it was “completely ... presenting it as clearly showing that the steep rise in observed autism rates is real — something it does not do. Kennedy claimed that ...

better recognition does not account for rising rates. “It was not expected that autism prevalence would increase. Other childhood disabilities and neurologic disorders do not increase or change ...

Autism diagnoses are continuing to increase in the United States ... the broadening of the definition of ASD, they say reasons for rising rates may include people having children at older ages ...

Autism Rates in US Rise Again to 1 in 31 Kids ... hundreds of scientists from around the world” and identify what causes autism in less than six months. He also promised “we’ll be able ...

And the rise in autism rates among children probably reflects ... not only to understand its causes, but also to support the growing number of people diagnosed today,” Shih said in his statement.