Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects people differently. While some autism traits may be similar, others can ...

The age at which a person is diagnosed with autism can be partly explained by genetic factors.

The new research reinforces how complex the neurodevelopmental disorder is and that there isn’t a single cause.

With such a high co-occurrence rate between ASD and ADHD, it’s in the best interest of the children you work with to expand ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that maternal use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) is potentially linked to autism in a new report, according to sources reported by the Wall Street ...

They examined the health records of more than 1.2 million children born in Sweden between 2007 and 2018 to assess rates of ASD among mothers who used painkillers during pregnancy, and an additional ...

The interim CEO and director of drugmaker Kenvue, which makes the common pain reliever Tylenol, met with US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. privately this week in an attempt ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, during a TV interview outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington. MediaPunch / BACKGRID Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s much-touted report on autism, set to ...

The Trump administration is steering the nation's health agenda in a sharply new direction, urging federal agencies to focus on vaccine safety and the causes of autism under a plan unveiled Tuesday by ...

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.

A story that circulated online in September 2025 claimed officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Florida's child protective services (CPS) harassed a Florida ...