The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.” ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that two major federal agencies within ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are partnering to develop a ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr has launched a project to trawl federal databases to try to identify why there has been an increase in diagnoses of autism, but there are deep concerns about the project's ...

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 ...

Federal health officials didn’t provide information about how people’s private medical data will be collected and managed.

The new platform will first focus on research around the root causes of autism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

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

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) signed an executive order to protect the collection and distribution of autism-related data for ...

A Column about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by James Coulter On Wed. Apr. 16, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., United States ...

“Linking CMS claims data with a secure real-world NIH data platform, fully compliant with privacy and security laws, will unlock landmark research into the complex factors that drive autism and ...