Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

Health and Human Services says an autism registry is meant to help find a cause, but some parents in the Cumberland County ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal government from collecting personal health data related to autism, a direct rebuke ...

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

Speaking at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

I believe it’s something very dark, deeply disturbed,” he wrote on X. “I will do everything humanly possible to protect my ...

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