EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — An East Hartford mother is calling for accountability. Shenika Carroll said her 6-year-old son, Jahrell, was illegally restrained multiple times by staff members while ...

In the final days of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers are urged to support some of the most vulnerable.

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have acce ...

The health secretary had claimed that people with autism will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job. Freelance Writer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling ...

Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study autism, the NIH's top official said Monday. The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy's autism studies to study "comprehensive" patient data ...

Autism is more common than ever before, a new report suggests. As of 2022, about 1 in 31 children in the United States were diagnosed with autism by the time they were 8 years old, researchers ...

Another example of this are emerging ties between gut health and autism. Exciting new research, now moving to Phase 3 human trials, has found boosting microbial diversity via fecal transplants can ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a new interview, said autism was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is an epidemic. It dwarfs ...

One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published Tuesday from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that ...

Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a complex developmental condition that affects communication, social ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month. So how is our nation’s top health official marking the occasion? By setting the movement for autism acceptance back by…oh, just several decades. Casting ...

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball ...