Journal Editorial Report: Lessons from Minnesota’s fraud scandal. Diagnosis rates of autism among children have more than tripled over the past 15 years. One reason, which Minnesota’s welfare scandal ...

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement retracted a longstanding statement on its website that vaccines do not cause autism. Local pediatricians and other experts said the new ...

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 vaccines and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with a new stance on the potential link between vaccines and autism. The new wording on the CDC’s site now states, "The claim ...

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 ...

Two reporters wanted to witness firsthand how doctors and families navigate mixed messages and unproven claims. By Gina Kolata and Azeen Ghorayshi Gina Kolata and Azeen Ghorayshi cover science and ...

Ms. May is a writer and the mother of a child with autism. When I tell strangers that my daughter is autistic, their questions are often so far from my reality, it’s painful. Does she have a unique ...

People who learn they have autism after age 6 — the current median age at diagnosis — are often described as having a “milder” form of autism than people diagnosed as toddlers. A new study challenges ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration will notify doctors that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a “very increased risk of autism,” ...

“The Trump Administration does not believe popping more pills is always the answer for better health. There is mounting evidence finding a connection between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and ...

Scientists at Stanford have found that hyperactivity in the brain’s reticular thalamic nucleus may drive autism-like behaviors. In mouse models, drugs and neuromodulation techniques that suppressed ...

For boys, the median age dropped from age 7 to age 5, Autism is being diagnosed earlier in young children, especially in boys, according to a major new analysis of medical records published on Tuesday ...