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

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

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

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

The National Institute of Health is moving forward with a plan endorsed by RFK Jr. to create what critics are calling an ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary ...

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 ...

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

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

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

U.S. health officials say they'll urge foodmakers to phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply.