Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order to protect the privacy of autistic residents in Illinois, following ...

The federal government must recognize the full spectrum of people with autism, not just those who are verbal and self-sufficient. Families such as mine are overwhelmed. We need long-term care ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...

I believe it’s something very dark, deeply disturbed,” he wrote on X. “I will do everything humanly possible to protect my ...

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about autism to the federal government unless it’s medically or legally ...

The order was in response to a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier Wednesday to research and ...

"We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform ... including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "to facilitate a comprehensive real-world health dataset that ...

The National Institutes of Health is gathering medical records for autism research led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This move aims to track the medical history of individuals with autism. Concerns ...

Meanwhile, a new registry is being created to track those with autism, and that information will be part of the database. HealthDay News — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide ...