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Fact-checking RFK Jr.’s claim that environmental toxins cause autism
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attributed increasing autism rates to environmental toxins. Autism researchers told ...
‘Dangerous,’ ‘anti-science’, ‘dehumanizing’: CT families, officials and experts push back on RFK autism claims, registry
Autism advocates, scientists and senators called Kennedy’s assertions unscientific and alarming, with many in the autism ...
Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director
"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.
Will there be an autism registry? What we know after NIH drops plans for vast data platform
An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...
Kennedy promises exhaustive studies to identify any environmental factors that may cause autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate.” ...
In first news conference as HHS secretary, Kennedy says autism is an epidemic in the US
In his first news conference as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ...
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Success on the spectrum: Autism advocates tout inclusion, services
When U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently called autism an “individual tragedy” and ...
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Who is Kyland Young? Big Brother star diagnosed with Autism slams Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling the disorder an epidemic
Kyland Young’s critique of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. centers on the politician’s framing of autism as a crisis requiring a “cure.
Mark Lane: Kennedy autism speech doesn't describe the grandson I know
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ill-chosen words on autism have provoked something like rage ...
Arizona charter school founder for kids with autism named to federal education post
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the founder of an Arizona charter network for autistic students would join the ...