Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a new interview, said autism was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is an epidemic. It dwarfs ...

Members of the autism community are pushing back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to find the cause for autism by September, calling the plan harmful.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. − who has long spread debunked claims surrounding autism and vaccines − suggested compensating families of some Americans with autism ...

One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published Tuesday from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that ...

Alex Wong/Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, is claiming that the impact of autism exceeds the impact of COVID-19 on American lives during a new interview.

Kennedy Jr. to meet. Singer’s brother and daughter are two of the millions living with autism in the United States, and part of a much larger community that has very publicly expressed feeling ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again likened autism to an “epidemic” and said it is far worse than millions of COVID-19 deaths. The health and human services ...

Kennedy called autism an "epidemic" at his first press conference as the secretary of health and human services on April 16 Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

Whether you have an official autism diagnosis or an inkling that you could be on the spectrum, you are invited to a happy hour on Wednesday. Happy Hour for Adults with Autism kicks off at 4 p.m ...

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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in full damage-control mode after causing outrage with his comments about autism during his first official press briefing as health secretary. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine ...