Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has vowed to address rising U.S. autism rates as a top health priority for the Trump ...

the gradual introduction of universal autism screening by pediatricians and the growing availability of services help explain rising reported rates of the condition. The CDC report itself lists ...

Kennedy Jr. made some scientifically unfounded comments about the cause of autism, calling rising autism rates an epidemic ... with Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)—a scientifically supported ...

One meta analysis of several twin ... to autism as a "disease" and that the rising rate of autism diagnoses is an "epidemic." MORE: MMR vaccine rates are lagging amid a rise in measles cases.

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls ... Why are autism numbers rising? Health officials largely attribute ...

Kennedy was speaking after the release on Tuesday of a government data analysis showing prevalence ... "some of the answers" by September. Rising rates of autism in the United States since 2000 ...