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An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...
"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.
The Department of Health and Human Services denied rumors of creating an autism registry, citing plans for a data platform to ...
Researchers, clinicians and disability rights advocates are dismayed by RFK Jr.'s new autism study. Many view it as a big ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to investigate autism’s “root cause” has drawn sharp criticism from much of the autism ...
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told advisers on Monday that the agency would create a central platform of patient records ...
TUESDAY, April 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will not create a ...
It's just the latest announcement from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to anger the autism community.
Autism, an umbrella term for a spectrum of developmental disorders that can look vastly different from one person to the next, was already a deeply stigmatizing condition for people like Tyler Bunty.
Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...
Autism advocates, scientists and senators called Kennedy’s assertions unscientific and alarming, with many in the autism ...
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.