Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with experts and advocates about the rise in autism ...

R obert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has shone a spotlight on ...

Disability advocates urge funding education and services for autistic people — not surveillance-style data collection.

The highest ranking health official in the country is now stating that I have a disease and that I’m a victim of an “epidemic ...

The National Institutes of Health will provide private health data to researchers for U.S. health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

There are no blood or biologic tests for autism; it is diagnosed by making judgments about a child's behavior. Research has looked at a variety of other possible explanations, including genetics, the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States. The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks ...

At his recent news conference, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spewed a firehose of falsity about autism. Experts in the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s repeated references to the autism “ epidemic ” and suggestions that it is fueled by ...