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

A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit ...

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has ...

Irwin, Executive Director of Applied Behavioral Learning Services (ABLS), started working with people with Autism over 30 years ago, when it was considered a rare condition.

obesity and autism, which he said is "getting worse," with rates now 1 in 31 — an increase from one in 10,000 children decades ago. Medical experts, however, attribute those numbers to better ...