Advocates in the Somali community say recent comments by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. linking vaccines and autism are making their job harder.

The suppression of data and the spread of misinformation about measles treatments are also contributing ... The vaccine does not cause autism. A Danish study of 657,461 children found there ...

One reason it's common to be alarmed about increasing autism diagnoses, says Gross, is that societies generally haven't built ...

More than $300 million in grant money promised to UCI, UCLA, USC and dozens of other California institutions has been axed ...

The anti-vax organization RFK Jr. led until recently relies heavily on a Wisconsin doctor who claim the measles virus has ...

By analyzing private health records, Kennedy aims to find a “cure” for what he calls the “autism epidemic” by September — an ...

Mapitso Masha founded the Bana Ba Thari Autism Foundation to support autistic children, fight stigma, and educate rural ...

Examples of people using ChatGPT for therapy have proliferated online, with some claiming that talking to a chatbot every day ...

The commission led by the health secretary says physicians often have the wrong prescription for America’s ills.

Autism spectrum disorder is now diagnosed in about 1 in 31 children in the United States, based on a regional study the ...

In his quest to “make America healthy again,” Kennedy — with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — has slashed 20 ...

Instead of a full-throated endorsement of vaccination, the nation’s top health official speaks to anti-vaccine forces as well ...