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No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director’s claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
‘Dangerous,’ ‘anti-science’, ‘dehumanizing’: CT families, officials and experts push back on RFK autism claims, registry
Autism advocates, scientists and senators called Kennedy’s assertions unscientific and alarming, with many in the autism ...
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NIH autism study will pull from private medical records
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
NIH scraping data from private health records for autism study
The federal government plans to scrape data from a slew of private health-related records for its autism study, ranging from ...
U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...
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Government Launching Database of Everyday People With Autism
The government is launching a registry tracking Americans with autism as part of RFK Jr.'s probe into the disorder's roots.
Legal Questions Raised Over Reported Plan for National Autism Registry
As reports circulate about a proposed plan under the Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a ...
'Cause of the rise in autism, a question scientists scared to ask': Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director Nominee
A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, spearheaded by US Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to compile ...