The Trump administration has retreated from a controversial plan for a national registry of people with autism just days after announcing it as part of a new health initiative that would link ...

Bella Ramsey, the star of ‘The Last of Us,’ recently opened up about how exhaustion on set made her autistic traits more intense. She shared that during long days of filming, she felt like she ...

You can reach Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, a Department of Health and Human Services official said in ...

A Bancroft resident answered a trivia question posed by Pepper, the robot that utilizes AI to help people with autism and intellectual or developmental disabilities. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists on for years.

Can autistic people hold down jobs, pay taxes or find love? Many do — but the question we should be asking, according to waves of advocates, allies and autistic people voicing their concerns ...

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The head of the National Institutes of Health now says it could take until next year to get preliminary results from their new studies into autism, marking the latest delay to findings that Health ...

Scientists say the rise in youth diagnosed with autism is mostly due to loosening of the definition for autism, not environmental 'toxins' You can save this article by registering for free here.

Back in March, Ramsey revealed that they had been diagnosed with autism while working on "The Last of Us." “Having to wear the waterproofs underneath my costume was absolutely atrocious ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently claimed that we will learn the cause of autism within a few months. Kennedy told reporters, “we’ve launched a massive testing ...

Kennedy Jr.'s new autism study. NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told advisers the aim is to help researchers study autism by giving them access to "comprehensive" health records. These records ...