Kennedy Jr. said April 10 during a meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet that the government will know the cause of the "autism epidemic” by September, and will be able to "eliminate those ...

Kennedy has prioritized autism in his aim to “Make America Healthy Again." On the heels of a new report showing that rates of autism diagnoses have again increased, Health and Human Services ...

Autism diagnoses among 8-year-olds saw a slight uptick from 2020 to 2022, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, published Tuesday in the CDC’s ...

Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that rising rates of autism prevalence in the US reflect a “preventable” crisis-level epidemic that has been caused by an environmental toxin. Advocates for people ...

Kennedy Jr. for restarting the national conversation about autism. At a Wednesday news conference, the health and human services secretary declared autism an epidemic, noted an increasing ...

Some of the earliest studies on autism diagnosis from the 1960s and 1970s did estimate autism prevalence to be in the range of 2 to 4 cases for every 10,000 children, but that was many decades ago.

Kennedy Jr., called it an “epidemic.” By Azeen Ghorayshi The percentage of American children estimated to have autism spectrum disorder increased in 2022, continuing a long-running trend ...

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 studies to ...

The HHS head does not believe the rising rate of autism spectrum disorder is linked to improvements in diagnostic practices, contradicting what the CDC says in a ...

The study reveals that ... Apr. 1, 2025 — In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new ... Repetitive Behaviors and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — 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 ...