The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, has told Brits to ignore what Donald Trump says about medicine after the US president claimed a link between taking paracetamol and autism. Speaking at the ...

For most of human history, the mind was a mystery box. Behavior emerged, and we simply accepted it—strange, brilliant, troubled, gifted. But today, we peer inside that box. We map genes. We track ...

Monday’s sweeping autism announcements have sparked deeper conversations about the widespread neurological disorder. Health officials spoke during a press conference in Washington, D.C., about ...

Share on Pinterest A family medicine physician helps Medical News Today fact-check recent claims about the prevalence of autism and its risk factors. Image credit: Jennifer Bogle/Stocksy. Posts on ...

On 16 April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr held a press conference about rising diagnoses of autism. The US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary pointed to new data showing that autism prevalence in the ...

"Autism. Tomorrow, we're going to be talking in the oval office in the White House about autism," the president said NEW YORK, September 22. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump stated that his ...

Blame it on the X factor. Research has long shown that boys are over three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. Data shows that boys are over three times more likely to be ...

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of individuals being diagnosed with autism and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD ...

For decades researchers have thought of autism as a predominantly male disorder but experts now say it may affect as many girls as it does boys. The prevalence of the spectrum disorder has increased ...