I was 34 when I became K’s foster mom. We got the call at bedtime on a Tuesday; a newborn needed a place to stay. The next ...

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 has prioritized autism in his aim to “Make America Healthy Again." On the heels of a new report showing that rates of autism diagnoses have again increased, Health and Human Services ...

Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that rising rates of autism prevalence in the US reflect a “preventable” crisis-level epidemic that has been caused by an environmental toxin. Advocates for people ...

Kennedy Jr. hosted a press conference on Wednesday to discuss data out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing the rate of autism had increased to one in 31 among 8-year-olds.

About 1 in every 31 children were diagnosed with autism in 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing a trend of increases from previous ...

Languages: English. Newsweek has created a map showing which states have the highest autism rates, after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said there is an autism "epidemic" in the U.S. Some ...

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.

Kennedy Jr., called it an “epidemic.” By Azeen Ghorayshi The percentage of American children estimated to have autism spectrum disorder increased in 2022, continuing a long-running trend ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing backlash for comments about autism made at a press conference on April 16. In his remarks, RFK Jr. said that children diagnosed ...