The agency’s review of the two other deaths of children with special needs is still underway. One of the completed cases involved Joshua James McCoy, a 5-year-old with autism who wandered away ...

The annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research took place in Seattle from April 30–May 3, 2025. In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services disclosed that it ...

Staff report The Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley has a new executive director, at least temporarily, after Stacie Bacorn resigned after her guilty plea earlier this week in Stark County Common ...

1 in 31 kids in the U.S. were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by their 8th birthday — up from 1 in 150 kids in 2000, when the agency began collecting data. Autism diagnoses among 4-year ...

A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations and autism has been tapped ... s premier public health agency has stressed vaccination as the ...

The topic was what he described as an “alarming ... epidemic” of autism, supposedly documented by a new report by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network of the Centers ...

Among 8-year-olds, one in 31 were found to have autism in 2022, compared with 1 in 36 in 2020. That rate is nearly five times as high as the figure in 2000, when the agency first began collecting ...

The idea that vaccines cause autism was debunked by scientists some time ago. Yet it won’t go away. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agency, for example, is ...

On Thursday, an HHS spokesperson said that the agency was developing “a secure data repository” of “large-scale, de-identified data to better understand the causes of conditions like autism ...

Matthew Lerner, PhD, an associate professor in the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, was quoted in a May 2 Los Angeles Times article about the International Society for Autism Research’s annual meeting ...