Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...

Autism therapy has become the fastest-growing area of spending for Medicaid, the state-run program for low-income people. In 2023, states paid autism-therapy providers $2.2 billion, up from just $660 ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved a decades-old prescription vitamin called leucovorin as the first treatment for a rare genetic disorder in certain adults and children. The move comes months ...

With four Cleveland West Conference awards, Rocky River took them all. On March 9, the CWC announced that Rocky River’s Elizabeth Lang (CWC Player of the Year), Nora Bruder (CWC Offensive Player of ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kate Odell, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Ben Curtis/Allison Robbert/AP/Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Wire Federal investigators are ...

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 ...

Formation of an independent, science-centered coordinating body aims to preserve consensus-driven autism research priorities and counter potential drift toward debunked vaccine-autism narratives ...

Axel Springer is adding to its portfolio of media companies, buying real estate publication Bisnow. Axel Springer announced the acquisition of the commercial real estate editorial and events platform ...

A group of prominent scientists launched an independent autism advisory panel Tuesday over fears that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has politicized the key federal autism advisory board he ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A large Swedish study suggests that by adulthood, diagnoses of autism in women and men reach ...

Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break ...