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Researchers who've spent years deciphering autism say RFK Jr.'s debunked claims about the disorder may undermine decades of science into a complex condition that affects millions of children.

Autism rates have soared. This doctor says he knows part of the reason why NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Allen Frances, about his piece in the New York Times titled, ...

Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said of people with autism. “These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job.

Pinpointing the cause of autism has proven difficult, in part because it’s a complex group of developmental disorders and not a single condition. Now, an international team of researchers says ...

In his remarks, RFK Jr. said that children diagnosed with autism are “suffering,” claiming they will never work, find love, write a poem, play baseball, and many will never "use a toilet ...

Advanced Science revealed that the bond between humans and dogs runs deeper than previously thought — all the way to our brain waves. For the first time, researchers in China have observed neural ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study vaccines and autism, a person familiar with the situation told CNN, despite strong ...

Is RFK Jr. Making an ‘Autism Registry’? The internet recently went abuzz with claims that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new registry to track ...

Rates of autism spectrum disorder among U.S. children reached a record level in 2022, continuing a recent trend of increasing prevalence. There are no treatments or cures for autism, nor can it be ...

CATHY WURZER: One in 16 Somali Minnesota four-year-olds has autism. That's compared with one in 53 of their classmates. The data comes from a 2023 Centers for Disease Control autism survey from ...

The brainwave-reading technology of EEG helps monitor people with epilepsy and can detect when we're dozing off behind the wheel in a simulator. As scientists mark the 100th anniversary of EEG ...