We’re not going to find a smoking gun that is going to explain the incidence of autism. And it’s certainly not going to be ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create a "real-world data platform" to determine the cause of autism ...

starting with autism. The new partnership between the NIH and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services comes on the heels of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Autism experts and advocates expressed alarm after the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it intends to create a database of enrolled Medicare and Medicaid patients to support ...

The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are leery of the new initiative, which they say is rushed and skirts typical ...

According to a 2023 JAMA Psychiatry study, 403,028 adults over nine years had autism claims, and 71.6 percent of them were continuously enrolled in Medicaid. Medicare is the U.S. government ...

The governor issued an executive order after the NIH announced plans to use the proposed database to discover a ...

Kennedy said in a press release about the NIH-CMS partnership that the arrangement is meant “to uncover the root causes of autism and ... to gain access to Medicare and Medicaid enrollee data ...