NIH already keeps a list of registries for various diagnoses, but the "autism registry" report comes amid Kennedy's false ...

An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...

It's just the latest announcement from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to anger the autism community.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said "it's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance." ...

The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the ...

Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...

Editor's note: On April 25, 2025, this story was updated to reflect that the National Institutes of Health released a previously unavailable video of the April 21, 2025, meeting in which NIH ...

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, spearheaded by US Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to compile ...

The CEO of the Autism Society of America said his organization has “deep concerns” about NIH collecting personal health data.

The health secretary's reported plan to create a registry to track Americans with autism has been met with backlash.