The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

CMS and NIH will start this partnership by establishing a data use agreement under CMS' Research Data Disclosure Program ...

The autism community mobilizes against a federal database that many fear could threaten privacy and autonomy. Advocates ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

We already know a lot about the disorder and why its prevalence has increased.

RFK Jr.’s peddling of the long-debunked lie that vaccines or environmental toxins cause autism, and framing autistic people ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is amassing Americans' private medical records for a new autism study. Data will be collected from ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has sparked widespread outrage with disparaging remarks about autism ...