Last year, Health Secretary Kennedy thrust autism into the national spotlight, calling it an epidemic and vowing to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A model of a DNA molecule is displayed in the New York office of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in 1962.

In the early 1990s, autism was a relatively rare diagnosis, found in just 1 out of every 1,000 individuals. Fast forward to today, and that figure stands at a staggering 1 in 31. The rapid rise has ...

Spoiler alert: Scientists haven’t pinpointed one root cause of autism. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t trying. And studies, like this one, can help medical experts to better understand the intricate ...

“It remains the number one studied environmental factor in autism, and there is no link whatsoever.” More research is needed on many of the other purported causes of autism, she said, “but vaccines ...

This past week, Dr. Mark Green, M.D., who was recently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Tennessee declared: “Let me say this about autism, I have committed to people in ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism’s cause — a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of studies have found no link between autism and childhood vaccines. - Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images ...

(CNN) — Until last week, parents who looked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website on autism and vaccines would see a few key points: Studies have not found links between ...