For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in ...

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 ...

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients ...

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

Kennedy directed the health department to undertake a far-reaching research effort to identify the causes of autism, a complex disorder that impacts the brain.

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

Kennedy Jr said on Wednesday. The new platform will first focus on research around the root causes of autism, the Department of Health and Human Services said, and, in the long term, link data for ...

Two weeks after it walked back claims that it was creating an autism database, the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced that the National Institutes of Health would build ...