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NIH promises major autism updates ‘within next year’ despite RFK Jr.’s September goal
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya promised that answers and solutions regarding the United States’s ...
RFK Jr. says cause of autism will be found by September, but experts fear he's reviving debunked theories
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a "massive testing and research effort" will focus on the cause of autism, but ...
RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the ...
Fact check: No autism registry, real-time data platform to be created, HHS says
An autism registry will not be created, a spokesperson for the United States Department of Health and Human Services told ...
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RFK Jr. building Autism Registry to track Americans by using their personal data
WASHINGTON -- Private medical data for millions of Americans is being collected by the government as part of ongoing efforts ...
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NIH autism study will pull from private medical records
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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RFK Jr.’s Major Autism Study to Use Private Health Records
Meanwhile, a new registry is being created to track those with autism, and that information will be part of the database.