David Geier has sought access to a federal database from which he was previously barred.

Here is a look at autism. Autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) incorporates a group of neurodevelopmental disorders causing impaired communication skills and social skills. ASD generally starts ...

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said in April when announcing his department’s new ...

Posts disputing David Geier’s qualifications to lead such a study have circulated on social media platforms like X, Facebook, and Reddit ...

Hanna Rosin: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is very concerned about autism. He has been for a couple of decades, since he first became convinced that mercury in vaccines made children autistic, which by the ...

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for yearly updates to COVID shots, saying they'd ...

The debate over his comments has become a flashpoint ... and discredited theories—such as the debunked link between vaccines and autism—could be misused to justify harmful policies, further ...

But the COVID vaccine would also bring a renewed public debate around vaccines ... research “the origins” of the “epidemic” of autism, which he said now affects 1 in 31 children.

While Kennedy didn’t explicitly discuss vaccines, his remarks ... There’s long been a scientific debate about how much of the rise in apparent autism rates is due to better diagnosis and ...

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new autism study has sparked controversy, alarming the medical community due to his history of promoting debunked vaccine-autism links. Experts and ...

will investigate whether vaccines cause autism. The public health announcement reignited a longstanding debate over a theory lacking substantial scientific evidence. “As President Trump said in ...