Women in their 20s are also having fewer children. Births among women ages 20 to 24 fell from about 106 per 1,000 in 2007 to about 57 in 2024. Among women ages 25 to 29, births dropped from about 118 ...

Dani Bowman and James B. Jones' response comes after the Health and Human Services secretary recently promised to identify ...

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was 32.2 per 1000 children aged 8 years across 16 sites in the United States in 2022.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the United States are ...

One of the most notable things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a ...

More than 1,700 people are expected to gather at Grand Rapids’ Blue Bridge on Thursday for one of West Michigan’s largest community gatherings during Autism Awareness Month.

The programs range from prevention of birth defects like spina bifida and congenital heart defects, to preventing over 30,000 people with hemophilia from suffering bleeding crises while protecting the ...

The U.S. fertility rate grew by less than 1% -- close to a record low -- as 3,622,673 babies were born in 2024, according to ...

Most Americans have encountered false claims about the measles vaccine, and many aren’t sure what the truth is, according to ...

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Medical experts, along with people on the autism spectrum, told PolitiFact that Kennedy’s portrayal was skewed.

Reaction from the autism community has been swift and damning after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.