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 ...

HHS secretary RFK Jr’s directive to create what appears to be a registry of US citizens with autism, has been met with dismay ...

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.

Pritzker said the order was necessary in response to concerns about the creation of a federal autism registry or database without legal protections.

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

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 ...