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

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

Public health is worsening, autism rates are rising — and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root ...

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said in April when announcing his department’s new ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

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

Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems.

"Patience," an ingratiating episodic series on PBS beginning Sunday, follows a neurodivergent clerk played by Ella Maisy ...

RFK Jr is long known for his anti-vaccine stance and the belief that it causes autism. After he fired the vaccine advising committee, he has now hired a known vaccine skeptic and autism critic to look ...

Roth said many agree that more research is needed to determine what causes autism ... expressed concerns about rising autism diagnoses rates. Some of that increase is due to increased awareness ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for ...

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.