The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...

CMS and NIH will start this partnership by establishing a data use agreement under CMS' Research Data Disclosure Program ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

The autism community mobilizes against a federal database that many fear could threaten privacy and autonomy. Advocates ...

Families and advocates are praising action taken to protect people in Illinois who have autism. On Wednesday, Gov. J.B.

We already know a lot about the disorder and why its prevalence has increased.

RFK Jr.’s peddling of the long-debunked lie that vaccines or environmental toxins cause autism, and framing autistic people ...

In his first news conference as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that rising rates of autism prevalence in the US reflect a ...

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.