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 ...

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 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 ...

As part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quest to find the cause of autism, the NIH will begin using privacy-protected Medicare and Medicaid data.

The National Institutes of Health and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Wednesday said Medicare and Medicaid private ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...