Joseph Buxbaum was initially unconvinced. When early hints of a connection between autism and Alzheimer’s began to appear in the medical literature a few years ago, they struck him as implausible — ...

A diagnosis from Dr. Doomscroll? It may be time for a second opinion. Social media users are increasingly diagnosing themselves with autism after watching TikTok content about the neurodevelopmental ...

Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House announcement about autism is expected Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump's weekend comment that "I think we found an answer" to the developmental disorder.

With four Cleveland West Conference awards, Rocky River took them all. On March 9, the CWC announced that Rocky River’s Elizabeth Lang (CWC Player of the Year), Nora Bruder (CWC Offensive Player of ...

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. autism advisory board remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to include vaccine skeptics aims to steer federal research spending toward investigating ...

Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

New research challenged the longstanding belief that autism is much more common in males versus females. In a Swedish study of 2.7 million people, male-to-female ratios in autism diagnoses were nearly ...

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break ...

The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause the disorder. By Azeen Ghorayshi Health ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Autism masking involves consciously or unconsciously suppressing natural autistic traits, often to avoid stigma or fit in socially. While masking may provide short-term benefits in certain social ...