The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of the autism spectrum disorder, creating a database of ...

As an autistic woman who has a full time job, lives on my own and even manages to blend in fairly well in social settings when I have the energy, my life has been a series of contradictions.

Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism although experts say it’s unlikely to help reveal the condition ...

Kennedy Jr. last month said he’s launching a new research project to identify the cause of autism, which he says is preventable. Experts refute that claim. Mario Tama/Getty Share Gov.

International sales agency REinvent has boarded horror creature feature “Bone Keeper,” starring John Rhys-Davies, who is best known for portraying Gimli in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy ...

Kennedy Jr.’s bid to find the causes of autism “by September.” Early signals from health officials that they would build a database to track autism were met with swift rebuke from advocacy ...