Six days after a Houston-area mother reported that her 15-year-old son with autism was missing, she was told Friday that ...

Today, in a cabinet meeting, U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed that there is a link ...

Autism — diagnosed in 1 in 31 US children, a rate that's on the rise — affects how people learn, behave, communicate and ...

Hotez is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the ...

Autism expert Andrew Whitehouse speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the diagnosis of autism has shifted since ...

Despite broad efforts in recent years to identify children with autism early, many continue to go undiagnosed for years. New ...

Children with autism can be prone to wandering and are often drawn to water. Parents are often faced with the burden on their ...

While Trump suggested acetaminophen could harm fetal brain development, doctors stress there is no clear evidence linking Tylenol to autism American President Donald Trump has now claimed that Tylenol ...

Childhood autistic traits may predict a future PTSD diagnosis, according to a long-term study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. The findings show young people with more traits are ...

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Clinicians and researchers continue to push back on unsupported claims about the causes of autism while new NIH projects aim to clarify its complex origins.

Evidence for Trump's Tylenol claim is weak. Yet no prior administration has cared less about what either autism experts or ...