A small study suggests that gut imbalances may explain why some autistic children experience changes in brain function and behavior.

The U.S. government released new data this week showing that rates of autism diagnoses among U.S. children reached record ...

The Health and Human Services secretary alarms researchers by calling the disorder an 'epidemic' caused by a 'toxin.' That assertion is 'not rooted in known science,' one expert says.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the agency is planning to study what causes autism and release results in September.

As much as the current administration would like folks to believe there is something larger at play, the rise in autism ...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive ...

Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health ...

Leading the current conversation about autism rates is Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who in a ...

Autism’s causes are well-established. An increase in cases is due to a shifting definition rather than a surge in incidence.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, struck an alarmist tone about new findings that ...

RFK Jr. has promised to find the "cause" of the "autism epidemic" by September. Many people in the autism community are offended by his rhetoric.