Epistemic injustice is the assumption that people, usually those with less power, are unable to correctly understand their ...

Nationwide Medicaid spending on autism care has skyrocketed 298% in recent years with audits in Indiana, Maine and Wisconsin revealing 100 percent of analyzed billing paperwork was shoddy, with ...

Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, boys are about three times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than girls are. Scientists have sought an answer as to why that ...

The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause the disorder. By Azeen Ghorayshi Health ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reshaped a key federal autism advisory board, appointing members who have echoed his controversial views, including promoting debunked claims linking ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market. A lab test used to determine the presence of ...

For many years, autism has been identified as a spectrum with differing levels of ability. New research suggests that the age when symptoms first appear may help anticipate the specific traits, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to falsely claim that vaccines cause autism despite overwhelming ...

Decades of research into autism has revealed this much: There is no simple answer for what causes the condition. In each person with autism, genes and their environment combined in a unique way, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with a new stance on the potential link between vaccines and autism. The new wording on the CDC’s site now states, "The claim ...