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 ...

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 — ...

The agency changed the language on one website page, saying that research has not “ruled out the possibility” that vaccines cause autism Ben Hendren/Bloomberg via Getty The U.S. Centers for Disease ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once stated unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism has been rewritten, now suggesting without evidence that health authorities ...

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 ...

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 ...