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

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

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of ...

The partnership will focus first on "enabling research around the root causes" of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), HHS said.

The US government’s proposal for a vast health database to study autism could improve our understanding of the condition – ...

"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.

Early signals from health officials that they would build a database to track autism were met with swift rebuke from advocacy organizations and doctors. NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s ...

Federal health agencies, led by Kennedy, are creating a database to study autism causes through Medicare and Medicaid.