Key Takeaways Under fire, federal health officials say they will not create a new autism registry Research will use existing, de-identified health data $50 million will be used to fund autism and ...

An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released ...

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s federal labor, health, human services, and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services denied that it would create an autism health registry after advocates for the autistic community expressed fear about reported plans for one.

Setting the record straight on autism: What science really says, and why recent government proposals threaten progress and privacy.

RFK Jr.'s government autism registry is really frightening Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about a surge in autism cases on April 16. Credit: Getty Images/Alex Wong ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to investigate the causes of autism.

HHS said that the CMS and NIH partnership will focus initially on enabling research around the root causes of autism spectrum disorder and, long term, will link real-world data for research on chronic ...

“Ever since the registry was first announced, there was an enormous sense of fear in the autism community, and they have concerns: Who’s going to have access to data?

Unnamed HHS sources told multiple news outlets that the agencies are not creating an autism registry and described the effort instead as a real-world data platform linking existing datasets.