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 ...

Indiana is barring one of the nation’s most expensive autism-therapy providers from billing the state’s Medicaid program two weeks after the company’s practices were detailed in a Wall Street Journal ...

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.

Autism therapy has become the fastest-growing area of spending for Medicaid, the state-run program for low-income people. In 2023, states paid autism-therapy providers $2.2 billion, up from just $660 ...

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 ...

A group of prominent scientists launched an independent autism advisory panel Tuesday over fears that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has politicized the key federal autism advisory board he ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A large Swedish study suggests that by adulthood, diagnoses of autism in women and men reach ...

Autism has long been thought of as a condition that mostly affects boys, but a massive study from Sweden suggests that idea may be misleading. Tracking nearly 3 million people over decades, ...

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 ...