WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday labeled the increasing rates of autism in children an epidemic and said ...

Experts attribute the increase in autism diagnoses to broader definitions and improved detection methods, alongside potential ...

To estimate how common autism is, the CDC checked health and school records for 8-year-olds, because most cases are diagnosed by that age. Other researchers have their own estimates, but experts say ...

A new CDC report released this week found 1 in 31 children in the U.S. have the disorder. The previous estimate was 1 in 36 children.

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the unusual step of publicly contradicting one of his own agencies' autism studies ...