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

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

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

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya signals that at least one institute director, Nora Volkow at the National Institute on Drug ...

The federal government plans to scrape data from a slew of private health-related records for its autism study, ranging from ...

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

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

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said the study would address the “cause of the rise in autism” that ...

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

Privacy experts are sounding the alarm after the federal government announced a plan earlier this week to create a health ...

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

Some in Utah are concerned about privacy after Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, proposed the creation of a database to research chronic diseases.