This year’s gathering comes just after a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows an uptick in the prevalence of autism and recent moves by the Trump administration to ...

In his first news conference as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, said at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that his agency will study the causes of autism. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the ...