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By Maggie Astor Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that autism “destroys” children have prompted outrage among many autistic people, who said they had ...

Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary ...

Some of the earliest studies on autism diagnosis from the 1960s and 1970s did estimate autism prevalence to be in the range of 2 to 4 cases for every 10,000 children, but that was many decades ago.

Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that rising rates of autism prevalence in the US reflect a “preventable” crisis-level epidemic that has been caused by an environmental toxin. Advocates for people ...

Kennedy has prioritized autism in his aim to “Make America Healthy Again." On the heels of a new report showing that rates of autism diagnoses have again increased, Health and Human Services ...

Kennedy Jr., who for years lived in Westchester County and ran for president in 2024, is under fire for comments made about autism and its potential causes in a speech Wednesday. Kennedy ...

Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.” To start with, as someone who has spent considerable time reporting on autism and having the honor to get to know brilliant and talented ...

Kennedy Jr. for restarting the national conversation about autism. At a Wednesday news conference, the health and human services secretary declared autism an epidemic, noted an increasing ...

Kennedy Jr.'s statements about autism has been overwhelmingly critical, with widespread condemnation from health experts, advocacy groups, and even members of his own family. Leading medical ...

I made sure to get there as early as I could. As an autistic person and journalist who wrote a whole book entitled We’re Not Broken, which sought to move discussion about autism beyond talking ...