Autism diagnoses have increased dramatically, with 1 in 36 children now affected. Explore the real reasons behind this surge ...

The finding, based on an analysis of medical records from 2022, reflects a dramatic rise in autism over the past two decades. Previous CDC reports showed that 1 in 54 8-year-olds had been ...

The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including ...

“This was no half-baked survey based analysis,” he said ... presenting it as clearly showing that the steep rise in observed autism rates is real — something it does not do.

It is a national tragedy that more than one in nine Australian boys aged between five and seven are now diagnosed and tens of ...

Yet the alarm he created was real, leading to falling MMR rates and rising measles ... also studying how to detect autism even earlier in life using brain wave analysis on infants well before ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has vowed to address rising U.S. autism rates as a top health priority for the Trump ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls ... Why are autism numbers rising? Health officials largely attribute ...

As the number of children diagnosed with autism increases, local autism centers offering services for families has followed suit.

The CDC is planning a large study of vaccines and autism. Instead, we should be studying the complex genetic and ...

One meta analysis of several twin studies found ... Kennedy has referred to autism as a "disease" and that the rising rate of autism diagnoses is an "epidemic." MORE: MMR vaccine rates are lagging ...

One in 31 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by their eighth birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. The finding, based on an ...