Meath County Council said it hopes to find a resolution soon after receiving a complaint about a decision to cease ...

Our state is a global leader in health care innovation, and it is time our policies reflected that promise for all of our ...

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

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

The scientists believe that changes, or mutations, in the Usp9X gene may play a role in causing autism. If Usp9X doesn’t function correctly, it may prevent the brain from forming the healthy ...

The parents of a 9-year-old girl with autism said Thursday that their assertion that her illness was caused by childhood vaccines has been vindicated by ...

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.

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

US President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Thursday promoted another fringe theory about ...

Completely avoiding well-studied and frequently used medications is rarely the answer for families trying to do the best for ...

Genes influence when autism becomes visible, revealing early and late developmental patterns across childhood.

As research on autism spectrum disorder has increased and the criteria for diagnoses have changed, more children and families ...